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I am a very new Perl user. I am trying to write some code to read a list of files with lines formatted like the following: dumptrend /emsdat/trend/ANALOG:AGCGH
I would like the program to get today's date formatted like yymmdd and append this date to the 10_3 and to the ems such that the command looks like the following:
dumptrend /emsdat/trend/ANALOG:AGCGH
I then want to run all the commands in the file containing the above lines. The output from the above command will look like the following:
07/05/98xxxxx00:00:10xxxxx
07/05/98xxxxx00:00:20xxxxx
07/05/98xxxxx00:00:30xxxx-
07/05/98xxxxx00:00:40xxxx-
07/05/98xxxxx00:00:50xxxx-
07/05/98xxxxx00:01:00xxxxx
07/05/98xxxxx00:01:00xxxxx
where the x's denote spaces. I would like to search through each of the .ems files each minute for the entries associated with that minute and send the output to a file in the same format. I would greatly appreciate any assistance I could receive. I'm under the gun to accomplish this and am trying to learn Perl. I am running Unix 3.2D on a DEC Unix.
I would like the program to get today's date formatted like yymmdd and append this date to the 10_3 and to the ems such that the command looks like the following:
dumptrend /emsdat/trend/ANALOG:AGCGH
I then want to run all the commands in the file containing the above lines. The output from the above command will look like the following:
07/05/98xxxxx00:00:10xxxxx
07/05/98xxxxx00:00:20xxxxx
07/05/98xxxxx00:00:30xxxx-
07/05/98xxxxx00:00:40xxxx-
07/05/98xxxxx00:00:50xxxx-
07/05/98xxxxx00:01:00xxxxx
07/05/98xxxxx00:01:00xxxxx
where the x's denote spaces. I would like to search through each of the .ems files each minute for the entries associated with that minute and send the output to a file in the same format. I would greatly appreciate any assistance I could receive. I'm under the gun to accomplish this and am trying to learn Perl. I am running Unix 3.2D on a DEC Unix.
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It sounds more like you want two programs, or I misunderstood the original question.
Nevertheless, you should have enough to go on with the above code.
Nevertheless, you should have enough to go on with the above code.
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I only want one program. The input file which is changed to a .ems file by the dumptrend command is updated every 10 seconds. I will go through that output which is the .ems file , search for the associated minutes entries and then output that to another file. That can be accomplished with a while loop and some sort of string search function I believe. Perhaps, I wasn't clear about all of this. In addition, it doesn't seem that the sub ParseAndRun is generic. Will ParseAndRun go through each line of my input file and append the date? There are 15 lines in the input file. Anyway, thank you for your help.
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