Oracle-L: RE: Perl Breakdown

From: Jesse, Rich <Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 07:23:48 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0053A705.20030125072348@fatcity.com>

Having the same problem of inconsistent output from "ls" (and other Unix commands!), I grabbed "els" from http://www.sourceforge.net. I use "els -p +Gmsn +TMDY3", aliased of course, to produce consistent listings everytime. For an "ls -l" equivalent, I use "els -l +TMDY3".

HTH! GL! :) Rich

Rich Jesse                              System/Database Administrator
rjesse_at_qtiworld.com                     Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI

USA -----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 5:05 PM
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This will make Jared happy, I finally broke down and fumbled my way through some perl.

function f_file_date {

   {
   print "#!/usr/bin/perl"
   print "print scalar(localtime((stat(\"${1}\"))[9]))"
} > tmp.pl

   perl tmp.pl
   rm tmp.pl
}

This little diddy can be placed right in my .ksh script to get file modification times in a consistent format, I wanted to use "ls -l" but then it occurred to me that once the year changes the "ls -l" returns a different formatted date entry for files modified during the last year. Maybe someone can suggest a prettier method of doing this within a .ksh script without calling another script.

Ethan -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jesse, Rich INET: Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com

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