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Running a perl script from the crontab
Hi, I'm running it on a sun platform, solaris 10 OS, perl 5.8. The entry i have in the cron is 00 18 * * * /usr/bin/perl /path/to/script The /usr/bin/perl executable has a link to /usr/bin/perl5/5.8.4/bin/perl I have two entries in the .profile, as below, for the user that may/may not be... -
Running a perl script from the crontab
Hi guys, I'm having an issue with running a perl script from the crontab. I've been looking into it for a while so have tried most of the suggestions i've come across on the net and still no luck. I've added the full perl path and path of the script to the cron entry, the permissions of the... -
Polling a directory and finding relevant files
Great thanks, that looks to have worked but now i am stumbling over how to add multiple values to each key in a hash. I want each different suffix to be one of multiple values for the filename key, i have been attempting to do it as below foreach (@finallist){ my ($file, undef, $suff)... -
Polling a directory and finding relevant files
Hi, I'm new here so hopefully i'm posting this in the right forum! I'm pretty new to perl also so this question is probably straight forward for most of ye! Basically i'm writing a script to poll a directory and get a list of the files, this part is ok! I have been reading the files into an...
