Thanks Jim, Date::Parse worked.
-Ben On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Jim Gibson <jimsgib...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/16/10 Tue Mar 16, 2010 2:05 PM, "ben perl" <ben.pe...@gmail.com> > scribbled: > > > Hi Jim, > > > > Thanks for the reply. This seem to work only if i am running perl on the > > machine itself. > > > > I am instead using expect to ssh into this machine and run stat command > and > > use the output from that command to check the output of that stat > command. > > Then check out the various date/time modules included with Perl or > available > on CPAN, including Time::localtime, Time::Local, Date::Calc, DateTime, > and Date::Manip. > > Date::Manip in particular has the ParseDate function for return a numerical > time given a string. > > You can also do your own parsing of the output of stat, extracting the date > and time fields and using the timelocal or timegm functions of the > Time::Local module to calculate Unix times. > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > >
