in reply to globbing by timestamp

Globbing implemented in Perl and many other shells works with file names only.

So you can say <*.c> to match all the files ending in .c there's no direct notation to match, say, all the files created in 2001.

Use File::Find instead, you'll be able to match files according to their timestamps (three timestamps per file, actually) and much more.

-- TMTOWTDI