I am currently running a Perl script that converts a text file to an HTML format that is posted to a web site. Right now I am trying to set up a trigger on my server to run this script. I know before the file arrives what it's name will be, however, there is going to be around 180 files. Instead of writing a trigger for each file, which is what I am doing now. I wanted to know if there was a way I could right a Perl script that actually checked the time stamp on the file and would then set off the trigger, running the latest version of the mlb_boxscore file. Below is an example of the files I receive. The files are always in this format, nothing changes except the numbers after the $ sign. 
mlb_boxscore$210508
mlb_boxscore$210907
mlb_boxscore$214503
mlb_boxscore$213306
mlb_boxscore$220345
mlb_boxscore$219201

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Any suggestions?

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