Why not use `date' directly?If you want to use perl indeed,how about this:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
system("date \"+Day: %d\"");
Christopher Spears wrote:
I want to catch the various parts of the output of the
date command. Here is my script:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $date = system("date");
$date =~ /(\w+)/;
my $day = $1;
print "Day: $day\n";
Here is my output:
Thu Sep 8 10:22:14 CEST 2005
Day: 0
What is going on? Does this mean that nothing was
captured?
-Chris
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