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Asked: 2026-05-13T18:35:58+00:00

I have a Perl script which will run in a cron job on linux

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I have a Perl script which will run in a cron job on linux suse. It will take as input a log file that was generated yesterday. The filename of the log contains the date (i.e. log.20100209)

Can I send yesterday’s date with the format in the prompt? Should I create an additional script to get the date and execute? If so, how can I do that?

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perl myscript.pl -f log.20100209

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Thanks for your help

It worked with:

perl myscript.pl -f log.`date --date='yesterday' '+%Y%m%d'`
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  1. Editorial Team

    GNU date:

    date --date='yesterday' '+%Y%m%d'
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