You might want to consider downloading cygwin (www.cygwin.com) which will
emulate rather nicely an unix environment under windows.
it comes with perl, bash, etc...
alternatively, just get activeperl from www.activeperl.com (I suppose).
Guillaume
> -----Original Message-----
> From: P�l Andreassen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 7:33 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Datestamp
>
> I'm looking for a way to insert a "timestamp" on the index page of my
> plucker databases. This should happen on build and tells me when the
> database was last built (easily viewable on the first page).
>
> I'm running under Windows so the wizardry I can do with script files are
> limited. I have come up with one solution that involves running the files
> below:
>
>
> ---------- PluckMe.bat -----------
> @echo off
> echo "Built on " > stamp
> time /t >> stamp
> date /t >> stamp
> copy index_head+stamp+index.bottom index.html
> plucker_build
> -------------- EOF ---------------
>
> --------- index_head -------------
> <html>
> <body>
> -------------- EOF ---------------
>
> ---------- index_bottom ----------
> <p>
> <a href="some_site.com">SomeSite</a>
> <p>
> <a href="some_other_site.com">SomeOtherSite</a>
> </body>
> </html>
> -------------- EOF ---------------
>
> Now, is there any easier way to do this ? Cant you make plucker understand
> a
> special
> macro tag, like $TIMESTAMP$ which makes it insert current time and date at
> that point ?
>
> bye4now
>
> ---
> P�l Andreassen
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