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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to write current Date dynamically in a file Post 302092973 by Sree_2503 on Monday 16th of October 2006 04:57:55 PM
Old 10-16-2006
Thanks Anbu.

just for my explanation (for an unix learner like me) -

This is going to replace the string 'CURRENT DATE' with the value of the current date - Am I right?
 

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WIKI-TOOLKIT-REVERT-TO-DATE(1p) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   WIKI-TOOLKIT-REVERT-TO-DATE(1p)

NAME
wiki-toolkit-revert-to-date - Revert the state of a Wiki::Toolkit instance to an earlier point in time. SYNOPSIS
# Removes any changes made to a Wiki::Toolkit instance since a given date # (and optionally time), restoring it to the state at that point. wiki-toolkit-revert-to-date --type postgres --name mywiki --user wiki --pass wiki --host 'db.example.com' --port 1234 --date 2007-01-05 --time 11:23:21 DESCRIPTION
Takes three mandatory arguments: type The database type. Should be one of 'postgres', 'mysql' and 'sqlite'. name The database name. date The date to revert the state back to, in the format YYYY-MM-DD five optional arguments: time The time (on the specified date) to revert the state back to, in the format hh:mm:ss. If not specified, will use midnight. user The user that connects to the database. It must have permission to create and drop tables in the database. pass The user's database password. host The hostname of the machine the database server is running on (omit for local databases). port The port number that the database server is expecting connections to. AUTHOR
Nick Burch COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2006 Nick Burch. All Rights Reserved. This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. SEE ALSO
Wiki::Toolkit perl v5.14.2 2011-09-25 WIKI-TOOLKIT-REVERT-TO-DATE(1p)
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