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 $filename = 'file' . time(); > open (FILE,">file.$date"); > print FILE ("blah"); John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]