Just finished a backup script to tar the screenshots that pile up on my system. I keep coming back to PERL for tasks like this. Closer to normal programming then BASH but still great shell interlope.

Learned that getting date strings is pretty easy. 🧅⏱👍

use POSIX qw(strftime);

my $tar_name = strftime "pic_dump_%d_%m_%y.tar.gz", localtime;
my $tar_full_path = "/tmp/${tar_name}";

#tech #perl