[WBEL-users] quick script help

[Graham David Purcocks M.A.(Oxon.)]

Is perl really needed for this, shell would do it just as easy.

On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 18:57, Nathan Oyler wrote:
> I don't think this is the correct place for this type of email.
> 
> Localtime();
> My $time = localtime();
> Print localtime . "\n";
> 
> There's a piece of information. You really should figure out how to do
> the if file exists on your own. It's not hard.
> 
> There are tons of perl resources. You can google/search through perldocs
> for each step, and finish this without any help.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: whitebox-users-bounces at beau.org [mailto:whitebox-users-
> > bounces at beau.org] On Behalf Of Erick Perez
> > Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 10:22 AM
> > To: whitebox-users at beau.org
> > Subject: [WBEL-users] quick script help
> > 
> > Hi there,  i need some help with a quick script (im not very good with
> > perl, still learning)
> > 
> > i want to run a cron at certain time in the morning and that cron
> should:
> > 1- check for file named /var/log/mondo-archive.log
> > 2- if exists move the file to /root/backuplogs/mondo-
> > archive.log.TODAYSDATE
> > 
> > how do i extract todays date(format MMDDYY), save it into a variable
> > and then append it to the filename
> > 
> > thanks,
> > --
> > 
> > -------------------------------------------
> > Erick Perez
> > Linux User 376588
> > http://counter.li.org/  (Get counted!!!)
> > Panama, Republic of Panama
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