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. I know that because I
check the modification time with stat.
any idea?
Thanks in advance

Maybe you could do something with File::Monitor, although I know nothing of its efficiency with large directories. FAM may also be worth a look.

Mark
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