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(idea) by Sverre Wed Apr 04 2001 at 10:03:44
File test operator in Perl. Returns age of following file (or $_) since last access. Note that this usually is a fractional value.

Example:
&action if int(-a $file) == 5; # Run subroutine action if file $file was accessed 5 days ago

A list of Perl commands can be found at Perl.

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