Using Perl On Linux To Do Mass Synchronization Of File Time Stamps | Linux Today

Using Perl On Linux To Do Mass Synchronization Of File Time Stamps

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 28, 2008

[ Thanks to Mike
Golvach
for this link. ]

“Today we’re going to take a look at another quick and simple
Perl command line execution statement that you can use to save
yourself lots of time ( If it really does equal money, this post is
going to be a lot more valuable than I originally thought 😉

“In a previous post, we looked at using Perl to figure out how
old all our files really are. This post is a little twist on that;
and it’s a lot less complicated. It will run on whatever version of
Perl you have (unless it’s ancient 😉 and produced equal results on
all tested Linux and Unix flavours I could get my hands on…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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