Christopher Spears wrote:
> I want to catch the various parts of the output of the
> date command.
Is there something the date command can do that Perl's localtime(), gmtime(),
POSIX::strftime(), etc. cannot do?
perldoc -f localtime
perldoc -f gmtime
perldoc POSIX
> Here is my script:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use strict;
>
> my $date = system("date");
perldoc -f system
The documentation for system() tells you how to do what you want.
John
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