Hi all, I am new to PERL and needs some help.

I need a to run a UNIX script which telnets into a NT server and opens a file and checks each line and the date in the 4th columns of a CSV file and deletes any lines which are older than 14 Days. This script has to be trigged from a Unix box (1) per week.

And the CSV file is updated from another program and I need to stop it from having any conflict with this script. Maybe using flock.

Here is some sample data from the CSV :-

63547 VPNT O 25112004 0:07:48 Boom Gate Exit 63547 VPNT I 25112004 2:32:28 Boom Gate Entry

I think maybe I need to use a combination of PERL, CAT, GREP, CUT, AWK.

Any advice would be appreciated

Thanks

In reply to Help - Deleting a log line with a data older than 14 days by Roshan_2004

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