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, 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.

Maybe you should let the system do the desired sorting. On *nix that might be:

chomp( my @files = qx(ls -t $dir) );
foreach my $file (@files) {
last if -M "$dir/$file" > 2/24;
print "$file\n";
}

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