List the contents of a directory - by creation date. I use this script for when downloading large numbers of files and need to rename them later, although there are many other uses of course.

DirByCreationDate.pl

use 5.12.0;
use warnings;

use File::stat;

my $dir_name = shift;

if ( not defined $dir_name ) {
    die qq(Usage: $0 <directory>);
}

opendir(my $dir_fh, $dir_name);

my @file_list;
while ( my $file = readdir $dir_fh) {
    if ( $file !~ /^\./ ) {
        push @file_list, "$dir_name/$file"
    }
}
closedir $dir_fh;

say scalar @file_list;

for my $file (sort {
        my $a_stat = stat($a);
        my $b_stat = stat($b);
        $a_stat->ctime <=> $b_stat->ctime;
    }  @file_list ) {
    say "$file";
}