Fwiw

use Path::Class qw(dir file);
use Time::localtime;
my $dirpath = dir("/waslogs1/vfoneLog/cposapp");
my $outfile = file("/home/cpos/CRM_Reports/output/filelist.txt")->open
+w;
my @names = grep { 
    my $st = $_->stat or die $!;
    localtime($st->mtime)->mon == 8 && # 8 means September
    localtime($st->mtime)->mday == 3
} $dirpath->children;
$outfile->print($_->basename, "\n") for @names;
$outfile->close or die $!;
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Ok, it's a bit longer. However you don't suffer any problems like

• Incompatible versions of awk, ls
• File names with spaces, or file names which have a date in them
• Executable shell code in your $arr[2] variable
• Flexible handling of error conditions like when one of those two path names is missing.
• I think there is more

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