Thanks everyone for the input.
Getting the date output is much easier in perl than I originally thought.
thanks!
Geraldine
> On Tue, 8 Mar 2005, Ankur Gupta wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > > Is there a way to store the output of a system call on unix?
> > >
> > > eg. system("date");
> > >
> > use backticks...
> >
> > $date = `date`;
>
> This is, of course, exactly the wrong way to solve this problem.
>
> Perl has date facilities built in -- so *use them*! :-)
>
> $ perl -le '$now = scalar localtime time ; print $now'
> Tue Mar 8 11:50:47 2005
> $ date
> Tue Mar 8 11:50:48 EST 2005
> $
>
> So, by default, you don't get the time zone the way the `date` command
> does, but if you need that, it's not hard to extract.
>
> See --
>
> perldoc -f time
> perldoc -f localtime
>
> -- for details on the built in time handling functions.
>
> If you want to get fancier, CPAN modules like Time::Local, Date::Calc,
> etc.
>
> http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/perl-5.8.0/lib/Time/Local.pm
> http://search.cpan.org/~stbey/Date-Calc-5.4/Calc.pod
>
> And so on.
>
> There's a lot of thing that can be legitimately done by calling out to a
> system command, but getting the date isn't really one of them :-)
>
>
>
> --
> Chris Devers
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