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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Simple date formatting? Post 302312408 by muay_tb on Friday 1st of May 2009 10:00:51 AM
Old 05-01-2009
thanks guys but i dont think you have understood what i am trying to achieve,

I already have the ctime of the file which is like 'Fri May 1 09:52:58 2009'

But i need to change it so that it is 010509.

The perl i am using doesnt let me do this:

Code:
get_time()
{
        perl -e '
        use File::stat;
        use POSIX qw(strftime);
use Time::localtime;

$file="$ARGV[0]";
$date_string = scalar ctime(stat($file)->mtime);
$date_time=stat($file)->mtime;

my @lt = localtime($date_time};
my $datestamp = sprintf("%02d-%02d-%02d", $lt[3], $lt[4]+1,$lt[5]+1900);
print "Timestamp: $datestamp\n";


my ($wkday,$month,$day,$time,$year) = split(/\s+/, $date_string);
print "$day-$month-$year\n";
print "file $file updated at $date_string\n";
' "$1"
}

get_time $1

The lines in bold return me an array which when i access them like $lt[0] etc return empty values...

All i get is:

Timestamp: 00-01-1900
1-May-2009
file output.txt updated at Fri May 1 09:52:58 2009

Smilie
 

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CGI::Untaint::date(3pm) 				User Contributed Perl Documentation				   CGI::Untaint::date(3pm)

NAME
CGI::Untaint::date - validate a date SYNOPSIS
use CGI::Untaint; my $handler = CGI::Untaint->new($q->Vars); my $date = $handler->extract(-as_date => 'date'); DESCRIPTION
is_valid This Input Handler verifies that it is dealing with a reasonable date. Reasonably means anything that Date::Manip thinks is sensible, so you could use any of (for example): "December 12, 2001" "12th December, 2001" "2001-12-12" "next Tuesday" "third Wednesday in March" See Date::Manip for much more information on what date formats are acceptable. The resulting date will be a Date::Simple object. Date::Simple for more information on this. date_format By default ambiguous dates of the format 08/09/2001 will be treated as UK style (i.e. 8th September rather than 9th August) If you want to change this, subclass it and override date_format() WARNING
Date::Manip does not play nicely with taint mode. In order to work around this we locally clobber Date::Manip's 'timezone' code. As we're only interested in dates rather than times, this shouldn't be much of an issue. If it is, then please let me know! SEE ALSO
Date::Simple. Date::Manip. AUTHOR
Tony Bowden BUGS and QUERIES Please direct all correspondence regarding this module to: bug-CGI-Untaint-date@rt.cpan.org COPYRIGHT and LICENSE Copyright (C) 2001-2005 Tony Bowden. All rights reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.10.0 2008-05-12 CGI::Untaint::date(3pm)
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