#!/usr/local/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Fcntl (); my @dateParts = localtime (); my ($day, $month, $year) = @dateParts[3 .. 5]; $year += 1900; $month += 1; my $already_there = 0; open my $mon, '<', "C:\\temp\\MONTHLY.CSV" or die "Cannot read file $!\n"; while ( defined ( my $line = <$mon> ) ) { my ( $date ) = split ',', $line; if ( $date eq "$day $month $year" ) { print "\ file has already been updated today"; $already_there++; last; } } close $mon; if ( ! $already_there ) { open my $day, "C:\\temp\\DAILY.CSV" or die "Cannot read file $!\n"; flock $day, Fcntl::LOCK_SH; open $mon, '>>', "C:\\temp\\MONTHLY.CSV" or die "Cannot write to file $!\n"; flock $mon, Fcntl::LOCK_EX; <$day>; # get past header while ( <$day> ) { print { $mon } $_; } close $day; close $mon or die "Could not complete writing to monthly file: $!\n"; } exit $already_there;