Thanks! That's much better than my caveman solution.

Ok, I figured out a way to do this. It's not elegant, but it managed to get the job done.

What I did was echo the $MYDATESTAMP variable from bash into a file named mydatestamp.txt and had a tiny...

I have defined a variable in bash

$ MYDATESTAMP="2009-06-25 21:57:18"

I would like to pass this to perl to perform a simple date conversion.

If I enter the date manually it works.
$ perl...