SPUG: Win32 Sorting directory by date

Jason Lamport jason at strangelight.com
Tue Oct 2 20:50:57 CDT 2001


Can you iterate over the list of files and stat() each one?

(perldoc -f stat)

-jason


At 5:52 PM -0700 10/2/01, Bryan Dees wrote:
>Hello, I'm trying to sort by date under Windows NT but not having much
>luck.
>
>What I want to do is open the directory, sort the array by their touch
>date and time then print out the contents. I've messed
>around with a couple mods (polysort, file::sort, etc.) but they still
>wont sort by the actual file touch date
>and time. I also tryed redirecting the opendir var through dir /od for
>example:
>     opendir(FH, "c:\\winnt\\system32\\cmd.exe \/c dir \/od $Files |")
>
>But perl didn't like that either.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thank You,
>
>Bryan Dees
>Distributed Systems Analyst
>Airborne Express
>bryan.dees at airborne.com
>
>
>
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