At 04:38 PM 1/30/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Could someone please help out with the problem of dynamically changing the
>name of an output file? I would like to concatenate the date to the name
>of the output file so that each time I run my script, the name of the
>output file is different...Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks.
Just tried this on my linux machine. `date +%s` will return the number of
seconds since 00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTC
my $date=`date +%s`;
open (FILE,">file.$date");
print FILE ("blah");
It works for me.
Roger
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