I tried to do this

se strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use Switch;
use File::stat;
use Time::localtime;

use POSIX ();


print ("Enter the directory name and date as input arguments:");

my $which_directory;
my $which_date;
###$tm = localtime;
my $mtime;
my $file;

$which_directory = $ARGV[0];
print (" The first argument is  $ARGV[0]\n" ) ;
 $which_date = $ARGV[1];


print (" The secnd argument is $ARGV[1]\n");

die("Nothing entered as directory path name\n") if ($which_directory e
+q "");
die("Nothing enetered as update date\n") if ($which_date eq "");


   opendir(DIR,$which_directory) || die "Error in opening dir $which_d
+irectory\n";

   my @dir = grep { !/^\.+$/ } readdir(DIR);

my $i = 0;

    foreach (@dir)
    {
     readdir($ARGV[0] . "/" . $dir[0]);
     $mtime = (stat ($file))[9];
    print " Time--->" . ($mtime).$file . "\n";
    print "Last change:\t" . ($mtime).$file . "\n";
$i++;

}
 closedir(DIR);
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$ perl test_ash.pl /var/opt/nexius/cm/westtr3/oss/ericsson 01/01/2011 Enter the directory name and date as input arguments: The first argument is /var/opt/nexius/cm/westtr3/oss/ericsson The secnd argument is 01/01/2011 Bad symbol for filehandle at test_ash.pl line 39.

Is there any other approach for reading and entering into the subdirectory ? I saw the File::Find but did not get anything of relevance! . Please guide

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.

Hi Monks, I am trying to beautify perl code on linux. I am having linux o/s and I have written .pl files I tried the following command perltidy somefile.pl but it is not working. What should I do?

You probably need to install Perl::Tidy

cpan Perl::Tidy
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