I want to write a small Perl script that will output to a browser the contents of a directory in the format of the command line function ls -lt. I only want to see those files in the directory that end with the following: *.log, *.txt, *.sql, *.err, *.par, *.csv. I want to use this file to troubleshoot report problems on our production web server. (Developers do not have access to production at my company.)

Here is what I have written so far:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl5.00506
use CGI;
$query = new CGI;
$query_string = $query->param('DIR');
print "Content-type: text/plain", "\n\
print `ls -lt $query_string`;
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I want do something like:

print `ls -lt *.sql *.txt *.log .. $query_string`;
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However, this does not work. Any help that you can provide will be highly appreciated. Regards,

Dave

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