Calling touch ...

2001-06-11 Thread innovative-peripherals
I'm trying to write a script that opens a file, then matches some characters, and then writes the output to an HTML file on the fly. Everything works except I also want to timestamp a file with touch in the same perl script and that doesn't work. Touch is active as I can 'touch' the file on th

Re: Calling touch ...

2001-06-12 Thread innovative-peripherals
Thanks for pointing me in a better direction. I used this ... > $now = time; > utime $now, $now, @files; # sets access and modification time ... and expanded it to this ... $now = time; print $now; @meters = ("test0612d.shtml"); foreach $file (@meters) { utime $now, $now, $fil

I have an array ... @effort

2001-07-24 Thread innovative-peripherals
I have an array ... @effort. I want to match the first instance of /AbC/ in @effort and push that element into a new array @newarray. Immediately after that, I want to match the first instance of /ZyX[andall13charactersfollowingZyX]{anddontmatchanymoreZyX}/ in @effort and push that element i

RE: I have an array ... @effort

2001-07-24 Thread innovative-peripherals
On 24 Jul 2001, at 15:35, Wagner-David wrote: > Do you have what data looks like or some code? It is unclear to me > what you are doing with the ZyX test. > > Wags ;) I'm hoping to match /ZyX/ once only push it into @newarray. Then repeat: match /AbC/; match /ZyX/ once only ... Then repeat: mat

Perl script to telnet into another box ... help ...

2001-08-07 Thread innovative-peripherals
I have a project where I have to run a job "on demand" on another box. Since I can telnet into that box from the server I'm running my Perl scripts on, I'd like to write a script that would telnet into that box. But I think my problem would be adding whatever symbol to the end of my login ID t

Problem with open(....?) ....??

2001-08-19 Thread innovative-peripherals
I have a script that has to traverse a path to get to a file to open it. I do not own that file but the permissions are set to 644, so I should be able to open it with my script. When I run the script with the web browser, I get "No such file or directory". But when I run the script from the c