Shell Programming and Scripting

Hai,

I have written a script in perl which retrieve log data from database If we give the time from which it is received

perl getlog.pl -F '2008:11:01 00:00:01' give the logs that are received after 2008:11:01 00:00:01

Now what I want to do is, The value of F (From time in the above command) should be taken by default such that its value should be 5 hours before the current time.

How can I do this.

Please help me in doing this.

Thanks,
Prakash.

this would help you obtain the time that was five hours before current time:

Code:

scalar localtime(time() - 18000)

format it the way you want, and use it as the default value