$ perl -de 42 Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.33 Editor support available. Enter h or `h h' for help, or `man perldebug' for more help. main::(-e:1): 42 DB<1> opendir $dirh, "Old_PL_programs" or die "could not open dir $!"; DB<2> @list_files = readdir $dirh; DB<3> print " @list_files"; . .. 24.pl 2tab.pl aa.pl ack_nomem.pl [... many files omitted] VAR.pl walk_HoA.pl whitespace.pl xml.pl zip_read.pl DB<4> foreach $file ( @list_files) {print $file, "\n" if 50 > -M "Old_PL_programs/$file;"}; # prints files younger than 50 days ack_nomem.pl fringe.pl khalou2.pl