date command not working

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

hi

 

#!usr/bin/perl -w
local ($date) = `/sbin/date "+%D %X" ` ;
print $date

when i run this in ksh shell it is giving the below error
sh: /sbin/date: not found

but same code is working and displaying date and time in sh shell.

what could be the reason.
pls help

2

Hi.

I think it unlikely that date would be in /sbin. More likely in /bin.

You also miss a / in your "shebang":

# cat perl1
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
local ($date) = `/bin/date "+%D %X" ` ;
print $date

# ./perl1
11/04/11 01:15:28 PM
3

hi
i added / still same error is coming.
in sbin folder date command is working.
but above script is not working

4

You mean that typing:

/usr/sbin/date

from the command line works?

(/usr/bin is in the PATH, so just typing date from any directory will work)

5

yes. thats correct. but one of my perl files is having the code.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
local ($date) = `/sbin/date "+%D %X" ` ;
print $date

while execute this code gives error
sh: /sbin/date: not found

i need to run from same path.how to make it

6

If /usr/sbin/date is working, then consider changing your perl script to use /usr/sbin/perl.

Sounds like you are on a fairly old platform where /sbin and /usr/sbin/ contain statically linked executables.

What is the output of:

ls -l /sbin/date
ls -l /usr/sbin/date
7

i execute it from root

ls -l /sbin/date not found

ls -l /usr/sbin/date not found

8

you must check enviroment variables.
what 's the output these?

which date
which ls
9

the output are

which date
/usr/bin/date

which ls
/usr/bin/ls

10

Not sure what really wrong with your code... Try this... which is your OS?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
local ($date) = `/usr/bin/date "+%D %X" ` ;
print $date

regards,
Ahamed

11

Maybe ls command is problem
check your ls command
if you use centos/fedora/redhat ..

# rpm -V `rpm -qa|grep ^coreutils`

However you must be sure env variables
you can try like this and lets see results..

#!/usr/bin/perl
($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,
$yday,$isdst)=localtime(time);
printf "%4d-%02d-%02d %02d:%02d:%02d\n",
$year+1900,$mon+1,$mday,$hour,$min,$sec;

or try

#!/usr/bin/perl
#local ($date) = `/bin/date "+%D %X" ` ;
#print $date
$ENV{'PATH'} = '/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin;/usr/sbin';
local ($date) = `date "+%D %X" ` ;
print $date

regards
ygemici