Question

How can i dynamically assign filename with -w option here ?

I am working on freebsd. I want to dynamically assign filename to the file created using -w option in this perl script. I have been using following method but to no avail.

$name = `date`;
system ("nstcpdump.sh -C 1 -w $name");

Can someone help me with this ?

Answer 1

try the multiple argument form of system:

system 'nstcpdump.sh', '-C', '1', '-w', $name;

you also may want to remove the spaces from the date string:

( my $name = `date` ) =~ s/\s/_/g;