Nice post grinder ++ A couple of problems with your code though. First you need to specify the full path to the files for stat - outside of the ./ dir your code returns the dreaded 1970 date for everything. Second you use $count = 0; next if $count++ > 10 which saves the first 11 files as $count is 0 to start (File 1), 10 at file 11 (still not > 10) and 11 at file 12. You need either >=10 or ++$count. No doubt this relates to the reversal of the inequality. I have supplied some reassuring test code below which lists the files with date and shows what will get unlinked. You also need the full path for the unlink.

cheers

tachyon

use strict;

my $directory = 'c:/windows';

opendir D, $directory or die "Cannot open directory $directory: $!\n";

my %age;
while( my $file = readdir D ) {
    next if $file eq '.' or $file eq '..';
    $age{"$directory/$file"} = (stat "$directory/$file")[9];
}
closedir D;

my $count = 0;
foreach my $file ( sort {$age{$b} <=> $age{$a}} keys %age ) {
    if ($count++ < 10) {
        print "Newest: $file (@{[scalar localtime $age{$file}]})\n";
    }
    else {
        print "For Delete: $file (@{[scalar localtime $age{$file}]})\n
+";
        # unlink $file; # uncomment at your own risk!
    }
}

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