Chris Devers wrote:
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Practical Perl wrote:
Here is my script:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $date=`date +%y%m%d`;
chomp $date;
^^^
Not that this is your problem, but why on earth are you shelling out for
the date? Perl can do this just fine, you know, and you don't even have
to chomp() the result :-)
Try:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX;
my @now = localtime;
print strftime( '%y%m%d', @now ), "\n";
__END__
The function strftime(3) uses the same format conversion specifications
as date(1). See `man strftime` for details.
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