#!usr/bin/perl my ($sec,$min,$hour,$day,$month,$yr19,@rest) = localtime(time);#######To get the localtime of your system print "Date:\t$day-".++$month. "-".($yr19+1900)."\n"; ####To print date format as expected print "Time:\t".sprintf("%02d",$hour).":".sprintf("%02d",$min).":".sprintf("%02d",$sec)."\n";###To print the current time $SQLPLUS = "C:/sqlplus.exe"; if( -f$SQLPLUS ) { print " exe file is present\n"; } else { die "file is not present\n"; } The code to run the sqlplus.exe.......shoud be here . . . . .