As merlyn notes, you can't get a files' creation date on Unix (and possibly other platforms), but often using a file's last modification date instead will work in many cases.

If that's an acceptable alternative, then you can do something like...

use POSIX qw/ strftime /;

sub mdate {
    my($file,$format) = @_;

      # Unless otherwise specified, use
      # MM/DD/YYYY as date format.
    $format ||= '%m/%d/%Y';

    my $date = ( stat($file) )[9];

    return strftime( $format => localtime $date );
}

my $dir  = '/path/to/files';
my $date = '04/11/2002';

chdir $dir         or die "Cannot chdir($dir): $!\n";
opendir DIR, '.'   or die "Cannot opendir($dir): $!\n";

foreach my $file ( readdir DIR ) {
    print $file, "\n" if mdate($file) eq $date;
}

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    --k.


In reply to Re: File Creation Dates by Kanji
in thread File Creation Dates by Anonymous Monk

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