Certainly an inefficient, unwieldy solution if you're dealing with huge logfiles. May be problematic on non-Unix too but you could post-process the logfile in an END {} block
eg, get rid of hr:min:ss part of timestamp for example: END { $^I = ''; @ARGV = qw( /path/to/error.log); while (<>) { s/\d\d:\d\d:\d\d//; print } } On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 8:51 AM, SSC_perl <p...@surfshopcart.com> wrote: > I’ll sometimes use the following code at the beginning of a script to > log errors while testing: > > BEGIN { > use CGI::Carp qw(carpout); > open(_STDERR,'>&STDERR'); close STDERR; > open (my $log, '>>', 'logs/error.log') or warn("Couldn't open > error.log: $! \n"); > carpout($log); > close ($log); > } > > However, I would like to change the date format. I’m not wild about > seeing the the full timestamp on every line: > > [Sat Mar 25 08:05:58 2017] > > Is there a way I can format that to my liking? I see there's a > ‘noTimestamp’ option to stop it from printing altogether, but I don’t see a > way to change the output. > > Side question: is there a better way to accomplish what I’m doing > above? I’m happy with what I already have (except for the date) but only > because I don’t know anything else. I’d like to hear how others do this. > > Thanks, > Frank > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/