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•Re: Finding oldest file in directoryby merlyn (Sage) |
on Oct 18, 2004 at 18:25 UTC ( [id://400266]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Probably only the teeniest bit faster to run, but a lot easier to type, I would have picked -s $a over (stat $a)[10] and so on.
Also, above some number of files (depending on your OS efficiency), it'd be faster to cache your stats for the sort. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
update: Darn it. I misread [10] as wanting the size, even though there were other clues in the message about wanting the oldest. OK, yes, replace -s there with -M.
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