Hey guys! I have a perl script that I use generate billing reports that gets ran and emailed every month via cronjob to report on some metrics. The perl script runs fine (I originally got this working because of some help from the wonderful monks!) For security reasons I cannot post the script itself but I can post how the current date filter works: 
y $START_DATE = `date '+%Y-%m-%d' -d "-1 month"`;
my $END_DATE = `date '+%Y-%m-%d'`;

chomp $START_DATE;
chomp $END_DATE;

my $URL = "http://url/url/url/dump?end_date=$END_DATE&start_date=$STAR
+T_DATE&type=csv";

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What I need to do is setup this script to generate a monthly report every month for past 2 years. Is there any easy way to do this with the $START_DATE and $END_DATE? Can anyone help me do this?

In reply to Generate a report for every month for a year by younggrasshopper13

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