#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my $dir = '.'; opendir DIR, $dir or die $!; my @files = readdir DIR; print Dumper(\@files); @files = grep{ -f $_ }@files; print Dumper(\@files); @files = map{ [$_, -M $_] }@files; print Dumper(\@files); @files = sort{ $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] }@files; print Dumper(\@files); @files = map{ $_->[0] }@files; print Dumper(\@files); my $latest = $files[0]; print $latest; closedir DIR;