newbie: help with file search

2001-07-16 Thread Groove Salad
Hello Everyone: I'm trying determine the best way to check if a file name is contained within a couple of larger files. I can do a grep from the command line but, what's the fun of that!? Plus there's about a hundred files which would be tedious. Here's my coding attempt: $dirname = "/var/

newbie: Sort Question

2001-07-18 Thread Groove Salad
Hi All: If I have files like the following: checking: env-20010712-0 checking: env-20010712-1 checking: env-20010712-10 checking: env-20010712-11 checking: env-20010712-12 checking: env-20010712-13 checking: env-20010712-14 checking: env-20010712-15 checking: env-20010712-16 checking: env-20010

Re: newbie: Sort Question

2001-07-18 Thread Groove Salad
y 18, 2001, at 05:33 PM, Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan wrote: > On Jul 18, Groove Salad said: > >> checking: env-20010712-0 >> checking: env-20010712-1 >> checking: env-20010712-10 >> checking: env-20010712-11 >> checking: env-20010712-12 > [sn

Re: newbie: Sort Question

2001-07-18 Thread Groove Salad
olfiles = map retrieve($_), sort map normalize($_), @controlfiles; foreach my $ctrlfile ( @sorted_controlfiles ) { print "checking: $ctrlfile for message, $msgfile\n"; } } close(CONTROL); I must be missing something. gS On Wednesday, July 18, 2001, at 06:17 PM, Jeff 'japhy/Marillion&

Re: newbie: Sort Question

2001-07-18 Thread Groove Salad
Yep-- That did it. THANK YOU! gS On Wednesday, July 18, 2001, at 09:35 PM, Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan wrote: > On Jul 18, Groove Salad said: > >> sub normalize >> { >> my $file = shift; >> my $s = sprintf("%02d",$1); >

newbie: Date::Calc Question

2001-07-23 Thread Groove Salad
Hi, I've been reading the latest post regarding the Date::Calc module with great interest. My question is this: Is there a way using Date::Calc to determine all the files in a DIR that have not been accessed or modified in the last xx number of days? I thought it would also require the use of

Help ** Getting the pid of a background process **

2002-02-27 Thread Groove Salad
Greetings all, I am trying to assign the results of a background process to $variable. I can't seem to get the correct syntax, could one of you good people assist? Below is a snippet of what I have ( running on Solaris 2.6 ), I know there are more elegant ways to do this. I'm open to any sugge