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Re^5: Find a File in a directory
by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 28, 2006 at 17:12 UTC

    Instead of

    opendir dhandle,"log"; @dots = grep { /^log/ } readdir(dhandle); for $item(@dots) { @files=`ls -l $item`; print @files; }

    you will want to use

    my $dirname = "log"; opendir my $dir, $dirname or die "Couldn't read '$dirname' : $!"; my @files = map { "$dirname/$_" } readdir $dir;

    Then you have the full filenames. Then you want to use the stat function to get the date and time of last modification of that file.

    Then, you want to convert that to a string, by using POSIX::strftime(), and then you want to compare that to the date string that you check against.

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