Newbie question

[john D]

Hi

I would like to make a perl script which will start another
program and define the ouput filename as a comandline prompt.

This means that it should execute the following:

Program_name [outputname]

where outputname are a combination of the present date and time.

Can anyone tell me how I should do this.

Sorry for the very simple newbie question-

 

[Ga Mu]

Hi

I would like to make a perl script which will start another
program and define the ouput filename as a comandline prompt.

This means that it should execute the following:

Program_name [outputname]

where outputname are a combination of the present date and time.

Can anyone tell me how I should do this.

Sorry for the very simple newbie question-

my $prog = '/path/to/program';
my $arg1 = 'first arg to pass to prog';
system( $prog, $arg1 );
my $status = $? >> 8;

Look at 'perldoc -f system'.

Greg

 

[Stan Mooney]

maybe that and
$arg1=`date`;
system($prog, "$arg1");
is what youre after?

Hi

I would like to make a perl script which will start another
program and define the ouput filename as a comandline prompt.

This means that it should execute the following:

Program_name [outputname]

where outputname are a combination of the present date and time.

Can anyone tell me how I should do this.

Sorry for the very simple newbie question-

my $prog = '/path/to/program';
my $arg1 = 'first arg to pass to prog';
system( $prog, $arg1 );
my $status = $? >> 8;

Look at 'perldoc -f system'.

Greg