while read l
do
vTimeCreated=`perl -e '@d=localtime ((stat(shift))[9]); printf "%02d-%02d-%04d %02d:% 02d:%02d\n", $d[3],$d[4]+1,$d[5]+1900,$d[2],$d[1],$d[0]' ${l}`
echo "${l} || ${vTimeCreated}" >> ${fPrefx}_Output_Files_${vDate}.txt
done < servername.txt Using the above code to format date time for each of the filenames present in servername.txt. But it gets stuck in the perl area when huge content is there in the file. Is this a memory problem or is there any other way that we can do the formatting?