Question

I am using SFTP through the NET::SSH2 package in Perl.
Listing files in a folder works good using the opendir function.

I would like to have the files in time order with the latest modified file last.
Is that possible and how?

Answer 1

The hashes returned by Net::SSH2::Dir::read method have and entry called mtime which indicates the time the entry was modified. Use it to sort the entries:

my @e;
my $dir = $sftp->opendir($dir);

while (my $e = $dir->read) {
  push @e, $e;
}

@e = sort { $a->{mtime} <=> $b->{mtime} } @e;
print "$_->{name}\n" for @e;