Re^3: list files based on age and pattern

That is, because you are doing closedir before readdir. If you were running under use warnings;, Perl would have given you an error message like

readdir() attempted on invalid dirhandle $dh at test-m.pl line 5.
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Re^4: list files based on age and pattern by kaka_2 (Sexton) on Sep 16, 2013 at 13:56 UTC
Hello hdb, Sorry it is mistake while copy paste but in the actual script closdir is after the readdir. there is no syntax or compilation error, only no files. -KAKA-	[reply]
Re^5: list files based on age and pattern by hdb (Monsignor) on Sep 16, 2013 at 14:28 UTC
My fault. You need to add the path to the filename when testing with -M like this `my @files = grep {!/\_NSA\|d+_\d+\.xml/ && (-M "$path/$_") > $min_age} readdir DIR;` I only tested in the current directory where it does not make any difference.	[reply] [d/l]