On Jan 30, John W. Krahn said: >Roger Morris wrote: >> >> At 04:38 PM 1/30/2002 -0500, you wrote: >> > >> >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. >> >> Just tried this on my linux machine. `date +%s` will return the number of >> seconds since 00:00:00 1970-01-01 UTC > >And of course so will the perl function time(). > >> my $date=`date +%s`; > >my $filename = 'file' . time();
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