Why not use the -M operator to test for the age of the file (result in days). So something like: 

sub test_new {
  my ($mydir) = @_;
  my $new_one = 0;
  opendir(DIR, $mydir) or die("...");
  while (my $file = readdir(DIR)) {
    if ($file !~ /^\.+$/ && -M $mydir . '/' . $file < 0.5) {
      $new_one = 1;
      last;
    }
  }
  closedir(DIR);
  return $new_one;
}

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would do.

Hope this helps, -gjb-

Update: Stupid me! I tested the script only in the current working directory, obviously the file test should read -M $mydir . '/' . $file < 0.5 rather than -M $file < 0.5 which looks for the file in the script's directory. (modified the original code already). Incidently, the error is easily caught with use warnings; since a warning about the use of an uninitialized value in numeric lt is issued.

Update: Added code to filter out the . and .. directories that were tested as well.

In reply to Re: Notification of a new file added to directory by gjb
in thread Notification of a new file added to directory by Anonymous Monk

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