#!/usr/bin/perl use Modern::Perl; use IO::Dir; my $path = shift; my $dir = IO::Dir->new($path); my %files; for my $file (grep !/^\./, $dir->read) { $files{$file} = (stat("$path/$file"))[9]; } my $file = (sort {$files{$a} <=> $files{$b}} keys %files)[0]; say "$file ", scalar localtime($files{$file}); undef $dir;