Why, use the stat() function my anonymous friend.

opendir(my $dh, "/home/anonymous_monk") or die("ack - $!");
my @list = ();
while(my $fl = readdir($dh)) {
    push @list, [ (stat($fl))[1,8] ];
}
print "inode: $_->[0]\n" for sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] } @list;
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HTH

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