my $mydir = "C:/Perl/bin/newr"; #### use strict; my $mydir = "//Infoserver/directory"; opendir(DIR, $mydir) || die "Can not open directory $mydir: $!\n"; while (my $file = readdir(DIR)) { if ($file !~ /^\.+$/ && -M $mydir . '/' . $file > 1) { my $size = ((stat($file)) [7]); next if ((-z $file) || ($size < 100)); print "$file is $size\n"; last; #only give me one } } closedir(DIR);