#!perl use strict; use Date::Calc qw(Today Add_Delta_YMD); # calc dates my $yesterday = sprintf "%4d%02d%02d",Add_Delta_YMD(Today(),0, 0,-1); my $lastmonth = sprintf "%4d%02d%02d",Add_Delta_YMD(Today(),0,-1,-1); print "Yesterday : $yesterday\n"; print "Last Month : $lastmonth\n"; # path to folders my $path = 'c:/temp';# or $DirCoolOut opendir(D,$path) or die "Can't open the directory $path : $!\n"; my @folders = grep {/$yesterday|$lastmonth/} readdir(D); for my $folder (@folders){ print "Zipping folder $folder\n"; # zip folders }