opendir DIR, "$path" or die "Ack!  Thpt! : $!\n";

my @list = grep { -M "$path/$_" <=1 } readdir DIR;
closedir DIR;
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The -M filetest returns the time since the file was last modified in days.

note I hadda modify this after I noticed that it was originally returning files that *hadn't* been modified in over a day.

danger's answer picked up on that =)

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