Here's some code I inherited. I am trying to use this code to accomplish the same task on a different file. I want to use GetOpts::STD in place of the hard coding. My question is how do I pass the "file info" into the GetOpts::STD from a cron job? Also, any assistance redoing this code will help. Thanks!

#!/user/perl5/bi/perl

require "getopt.pl"
Getopt(i");

$file = "usr/local/home/pfuser/CURRENT_54_USERS"; # I want to remove t
+his hard coding and use
                                    # the Getopts::STD, but how do I p
+ass info 
                                    # from a cron job?
@sids = ();
@sindinfo = ();
$numbers = 0;
$DATE = 'date + %Y%m%d'; #Is this a Unix call?  If so, how can I use P
+erl for this?
chomp $DATE;

if (! open(USERFILE, $file)) { die "could not open $file.\n"; }
while (<USERFILE>) {
    $curline = $_;
    chomp($curline);
    push(@sids, $curline);
    push(@sidinfo, " ");
    numbers++
}
close USERFILE;
Sfile - $opt_i;
if (! open(INFILE, $file)) {die "could not open $file. \n"; }
while(<INFILE>) {
    $curline = $_;
    chomp($curline);
    $startpos = 0;
    $length = index $curline, " ";
    $checksid = substr $curline, $startpos, $length;
    $startpos = $length + 1;
    $cheinfoadd = substr $curline, $startpos;
    $foundsid = 0;
    $index = 0;
    while ( $index < $numbers ) {
        if ( $sids[$index] eq $checksid ) {
           $sidinfo[$index] = $checkinfoadd;
        }
        $index++;
    }
}
close INFILE;

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