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On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 09:32:04AM +0100, Jonathan E. Paton wrote: > > I need to back up two days from localtime and I can't > > figure out how to do it. Currently I'm doing this just > > so I can work out the rest of the program: > > [Ignore me if you aren't on a Unix like platform] > > Hi, > > You should seriously consider installing the 'at' job > manager for run-once tasks, or 'cron' to schedule tasks > regularly. Try to avoid spreading time-scheduling > around, especially into memory hungry Perl processes > that just sit around doing nothing. > > man at > man cron I think you're missing the point here. It's quite a common task to work on logfiles that are a day or two old and have a timestamp in their filename. Sometimes these files are just required to be kept where they are for some days, and then one has exactly the problem the original post described. He'll still use cron to schedule his script, but the script will need to 'calculate' the filename of the n-days old logfile. -- If we fail, we will lose the war. Michael Lamertz | +49 221 445420 / +49 171 6900 310 Nordstr. 49 | mike@lamertz.net 50733 Cologne | http://www.lamertz.net Germany | http://www.perl-ronin.deThread Previous | Thread Next