Hi, I'm in a bit of a quandary as to how to implement this, I need to scan a _local_ folder on a win2k machine, if any files in that folder are older than 5 minutes, I need a file to be generated and sent to another directory. I have some ideas about how to sort the folders by date, vis: 
#!/bin/perl -w
use strict;

chdir 'C:/devl/bin' or die "Arghh!!! $!";
opendir(ROOT, ".") or die "Arghh!!! $!";
my @sorted_files=
        map  { $_->[1] }
        sort { $a->[0] <=> $b->[0] }
        map  { [ -M $_, $_] }         
        readdir( ROOT);

print join "\n", @sorted_files;
exit;

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but I'm not hip enough to really know how to use something like stat() and another function to say if mdate is 360 seconds older than the present moment, create this file in this directory Thanks for any clues. Dave

In reply to script for scanning folder and sending a warning if a file within it is older than 5 minutes by dkaplowitz

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