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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with creating a text file in perl with file creation date. Post 302516972 by Corona688 on Monday 25th of April 2011 04:05:39 PM

04-25-2011

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It seems a common misconception that there's a Specific Way��™ to do things in a computer language and you can find all the answers by googling "how do I do X in perl". It really doesn't work that way. You have to break it down into logical steps.

1) Logical step 1. How do I get the time in perl? I guess wildly and try perldoc -f time That returns it in seconds. A start.

2) Logical step 2. How can I convert that into something I can use? Well, the 'time' function documentation suggests the localtime function and perldoc -f localtime suggests the strftime function and the POSIX module and even gives examples. time isn't needed apparently since localtime calls it implicitly unless you give it otherwise. man strftime also tells you what strings strftime needs.

3) Logical step 3. How can I open a string as a filename? The same way you open any other filename. perldoc -f open

So you get

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use POSIX;

my $filename=strftime("filename_%y%M%d.TXT", localtime);
print "filename is $filename\n";
open(FILE, ">$filename") || die("Couldn't open file");

print FILE "hello world\n";

close(FILE);
exit(0);

I knew none of this by heart, I just followed the trail of instructions.

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shishi_realm_for_server_dns(3)					      shishi					    shishi_realm_for_server_dns(3)

NAME

       shishi_realm_for_server_dns - API function

SYNOPSIS

       #include <shishi.h>

       char * shishi_realm_for_server_dns(Shishi * handle, char * server);

ARGUMENTS

       Shishi * handle
		   Shishi library handle create by shishi_init().

       char * server
		   hostname to find realm for.

DESCRIPTION

       Find  realm  for a host using DNS lookups, according to draft-ietf-krb-wg-krb-dns-locate-03.txt.  Since DNS lookups may be spoofed, relying
       on the realm information may result in a redirection attack.  In a single-realm scenario, this only achieves a denial of service, but  with
       cross-realm  trust  it  may redirect you to a compromised realm.  For this reason, Shishi prints a warning, suggesting that the user should
       add the proper 'server-realm' configuration tokens instead.

       To illustrate the DNS information used, here is an extract from a zone file for the domain ASDF.COM:

       _kerberos.asdf.com.	       IN      TXT	"ASDF.COM"  _kerberos.mrkserver.asdf.com.    IN       TXT      "MARKETING.ASDF.COM"  _ker-
       beros.salesserver.asdf.com. IN	   TXT	   "SALES.ASDF.COM"

       Let us suppose that in this case, a client wishes to use a service on the host foo.asdf.com.  It would first query:

       _kerberos.foo.asdf.com. IN TXT

       Finding no match, it would then query:

       _kerberos.asdf.com. IN TXT

RETURN VALUE

       Returns realm for host, or NULL if not found.

REPORTING BUGS

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