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in reply to Epoch to specific output

Something like the following (substituting your epoch value for time() ) 
$ perl -MPosix -E 'say POSIX::strftime("%m%d%H%M",localtime(time()))'
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Re^2: Epoch to specific output
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 02, 2014 at 16:58 UTC

    Thank you for the swift reply.

    The system that I am using does not have the Posix module installed. Is there a way to do this without that option?

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      Use upper case: POSIX is a Core module installed with Perl. 
      perl -MPOSIX -E 'say POSIX::strftime("%m%d%H%M",localtime(time()))'

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        I am using Perl v5.8.4 on an Intel based machine with Solaris 10 64bit operating system.

        The capitalized POSIX was accepted but I am receiving other errors now.

        Input:
        perl -MPOSIX -E 'say POSIX::strftime("%m%d%H%M", localtime(1388679108))'

        Output:
        Unrecognized switch: -E (-h will show valid options).

        Input:
        perl -MPOSIX -e 'say POSIX::strftime("%m%d%H%M", localtime(1388679108))'

        Output:
        Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 1, near "say POSIX::strftime"
        (Do you need to prodeclare say?)
        Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

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      the POSIX module has been core since God was a boy, what version/environment are you on?

      print "Good ",qw(night morning afternoon evening)[(localtime)[2]/6]," fellow monks."
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