Solaris 10
Korn shell ksh,

Hi there,

I have figured out to get yesterday's date which is using the below command:
TZ=GMT+24; date +%d-%b-%Y to get the format of 30-Sep-2008 and
TZ=GMT+24; date +%Y%m%d to get the format of 20080930.

I need this two format. In my perl script below I need the variable of $date and $folder to have the above format. Below method don't work. Please help.


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# FILENAME: collectLog-smtp.pl
# Version : 1.o
# Purpose : Collect log for the specify date
# Changes : n/a
#
# Editable settings
# Variable


my $date = `TZ=GMT+24 date +%d-%b-%Y`;
my $folder = `TZ=GMT+24 date +%Y%m%d`;
#my $date = "30-Sep-2008";
#my $folder = "20080930";


# DO NOT modify the below settings
my $row = "";
my $input = "/jes/dist/sbas-poc/report/" . $folder . "/smtp/smtp.mail.tmp";
my $output = "/jes/dist/sbas-poc/report/" . $folder . "/smtp/smtp.mail.log";

open(INFILE, "$input") or die "Cannot open input file";
open(OUTFILE1, ">$output") or die "Cannot open output file";

while (<INFILE>)
{

# 14x argument
# col[0] = date
# col[1] = timestamp
# col[2] = msg ID
# col[3] = source channel
# col[4] = either destination channel OR log status
# col[5] = either log status OR mail size
# col[6] = either mail size OR sender address
# col[7] = either sender OR rfc;recipient address
# col[8] = either rfc;recipient address OR recipient address

$row=$_;
@col = split /\s+/, $row;

if( $col[0] eq $date )
{
print OUTFILE1 "$row";
}

}
close INFILE;
close OUTFILE1;
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