Hello, 
use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX qw(strftime);
my ($m, $y) = strftime ("%b %Y", localtime) =~ m|(\S+)\s(\S+)|;
print "$m $y";

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when used in:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX qw(strftime);

my $Results = strftime ("Results %m-%d-%y", localtime) =~ m|(\S+)\s(\S
++)|;
print "$Results\n";
#my ($m, $y) = strftime ("%b %Y", localtime) =~ m|(\S+)\s(\S+)|;
#print "$m $y\n";

my $root='/home/mgavi/testdir1';
my $seqdir = "/home/mgavi/testdir2/SeqAssembly";
opendir (my $dh, $root);
#chdir($newdir);
my @files=readdir $dh;
for my $f (@files){
    my $mod_time=-M $root."/".$f;
    #skip unless modification date is less than one day ago
    next if $f eq '.' || $f eq '..' || $mod_time > 1.0;
    print $f,"\t",$mod_time,"\t",ctime(stat($root."/".$f)->mtime),"\n"
+;
    copy("$f","$seqdir");
}
closedir $dh;

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returns:
1

I am looking for "Results 01-16-9-09A" to be returned because
that is the most recent dir in "JAN 2009" directory.

In reply to Re^5: Dynamically searching subdirs with titles based on year,month, and date by lomSpace
in thread Dynamically searching subdirs with titles based on year,month, and date by lomSpace

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