Help With ScreenShot Script

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

ok guys heres the story, you may have seen my code i added for the ScreenShot script Screenshot, well that weas the easy code, now i find myself stuck. i wanna make a simple perl script that will grab my screen and name it "Shot_date goes here.jpg" but i find myself getting annoyd, im running FreeBSD. the command for the filename i want would be something like this "date +%d-%m-%y_%H%M%S"

any help would be great

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Re: Help With ScreenShot Script by dorward (Curate) on Jun 20, 2005 at 09:39 UTC
Date::Format	[reply]
Re: Help With ScreenShot Script by Fletch (Bishop) on Jun 20, 2005 at 11:54 UTC
Or `POSIX::strftime` which will take the same format specifiers. -- We're looking for people in ATL	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Help With ScreenShot Script by zentara (Cardinal) on Jun 20, 2005 at 12:46 UTC
Why call Perl up for such a simple task, when you already have a shell started? #!/bin/sh import -window root /home/zentara/`date +%d%b%y%H%M%S`.jpg [download] I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Help With ScreenShot Script by aukjan (Friar) on Jun 20, 2005 at 09:47 UTC
Or try localtime .:\| If it can't be fixed .. Don't break it \|:.	[reply]
Re: Help With ScreenShot Script by Anonymous Monk on Jun 21, 2005 at 06:00 UTC
i have tried running it like that before, i get filnames such as "Shot-date +0-m-y_HM" i dunno why it does this, but thats why im useing perl to run it	[reply]