Re: reading a directory, first files the newest ones

jordilin wrote:
When I read a huge directory with opendir,
opendir(DIR,"dirname");
my $file;
while($file=readdir(DIR))
whatever...
it loads the oldest ones first. I would like the newest files first,
instead of the oldest. Taking into account that I am only interested
in the newest files, this takes a lot of time,

How much time is that?

as the directory is
really huge. I am talking about thousands and thousands of files. I
need to process the files that are two hours old from now. I am not
interested in those older than two hours ago.

You may want to use grep() to assign to an array the files you are interested in.

my @files = grep -M $_ <= 2/24, readdir DIR;

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