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Old 09-23-2005
perl translation - date command

I have a shell script I want to write in perl, and I want to do the following in perl:

VAR=xdirect_`date +%Y-%b-%d`*

Any ideas how on how to do this?
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Old 09-23-2005
You can compose a formatted date using a custom module "Date::Format" from CPAN (yes, you need to download and install the module before you can use it):

For details:
http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/TimeDa...Date/Format.pm
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