Thanks for the reply, tachyon. I tried adding that code, thus: 
#!/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $mytime=(time);
my ($File,$FileStat,$CallOutDir);
chdir 'C:/devl/bin/timedir' or die "Arghh!!! $!";
opendir(ROOT, ".") or die "Arghh!!! $!";
foreach $File (readdir(ROOT)) {
    next if $File=~/^\./;
    next if $File =~/\._Checking_File_Readiness_$/; # This is the *.fi
+letype I want to ignore
    next if $File =~/\_Watched_Folder_Active_$/; # This is the single 
+file I'd also like to ignore
    if ($FileStat = (stat $File)[9]){
        if ($FileStat <= ($mytime - 300)) {
        print "File older than 5min found. The file name is $File";
        #send mail here....
        last;
        }
    }
}

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but now I get a warning based on the "." and "..", which I'd also like to ignore (I thought the first script I posted ignored that. Pardon me if I didn't append your code correctly...I'm obviously quite new to all this. Thanks for any input. Dave

In reply to Re: Re: ignore certain files in a folder search, and create a random .txt file by dkaplowitz
in thread ignore certain files in a folder search, and create a random .txt file by dkaplowitz

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