The bad symbol error is caused because you are attempting to feed readdir a string and not a directory handle object. You get a directory handle object from a call to opendir.

File::Find quite literally does what you require - it crawls over a directory tree and tests each file against criteria of your choosing. Your wanted function might look something like: 

sub wanted {
    return unless -f;
    my $mtime = (stat)[9];
    return unless $mtime > $limit_time;
    print "$mtime\t$File::Find::name\n";
}

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where you would have stashed the user input date converted to epoch time in $limit_time.

I mean this with respect, but I believe you are trying to run before you can walk. Do you have programming experience in other languages, or is this your first one? I note you have an unused loop index variable $i, an unused iteration variable $_ and uninitialized $file variable. I would suggest you review http://learn.perl.org/ for some reference resources. In particular, Beginning Perl is widely considered a strong introduction.

In reply to Re^5: Please advice by kennethk
in thread Please advice by ashish_sun123

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