#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Data::Dumper; my $directory = "/home/frink/code/perl/z/"; opendir DIR, $directory; my @file_names = readdir DIR; closedir DIR; # remove "." and ".." @file_names = grep {!/^\.$/} @file_names; @file_names = grep {!/^\.\.$/} @file_names; # add the full path name back on (used by "stat()" below.) @file_names = map {$_ = $directory . $_} @file_names; # print "file_names: " . Dumper(\@file_names); my %times_to_names; foreach my $name (@file_names) { my $atime = (stat($name))[8]; $times_to_names{$atime} = $name; # print "file: $name\t"; # print "atime: $atime\t"; # print "\n"; } # print "times_to_names: " . Dumper(\%times_to_names); my @times_sorted = sort(keys(%times_to_names)); # print "times_sorted: " . Dumper(\@times_sorted); foreach my $time (@times_sorted) { print $time . "\t" . $times_to_names{$time} . "\n"; } my @lowest_ten_times = @times_sorted[0..9]; # print "lowest_ten_times: " . Dumper(\@lowest_ten_times);