#!/usr/bin/perl -w my @times; my $timeDisplay; my $timeMinute = `date '+%M'`; my $timeHour = `date '+%H'`; $timeDisplay = join (":", "$timeHour", "$timeMinute"); open(IN1, '<', 'fileTimes'); #fills @times with data in fileTimes while(my $line = ) { chomp $line; unshift(@times, $line); } close(IN1); unshift(@times, $timeDisplay); #puts in new time to queue open(FILE, ">fileTimes"); foreach my $i (@times) { #prints back into fileTimes to update print FILE "$i\n"; } close(FILE);