#!d:\perl\bin\perl.exe $pth = "\\\\127.0.0.1\\bex"; opendir(Directory, $pth) or die "Cannot Open Directory"; @cont = readdir(Directory); closedir(Directory); splice(@cont, 0, 2); # <-- remove " . & .. " foreach (@cont) { if (m/^[B|b].+.txt$/) { push(@contents,$_) } } foreach $content (@contents) { $logfile = "$pth" .'\\'. "$content"; if( -M $logfile < 1 ) { #less than 24 hours ago open(FILE, "$logfile"); # open logfile for reading print "$logfile\n"; close(FILE); } }