gah, i had a config problem so i've been out of touch with this echo :/

anybody who's been using the perl version of the binkp log trimming program
will have noticed an annoying bug...it padded the beginning of the file with
all the blank lines from the last trim session...

this is the fixed version:

##########################################################################
use Date::Calc qw(Delta_DHMS);
use IO::File;
use File::Copy;

die "usage: binktrim  \n"
unless {at}ARGV==2;

%moy = ('Jan',1,'Feb',2,'Mar',3,'Apr',4,'May',5,'Jun',6,
         'Jul',7,'Aug',8,'Sep',9,'Oct',10,'Nov',11,'Dec',12);

($sec,$min,$hour,$date,$moy,$year,$dow,$doy,$dst)=localtime(time);
$year+=1900;
$moy++;
{at}today=($year, $moy, $date, $hour, $min, $sec);

open (binkd, $ARGV[0]) || die "can't open $ARGV[0] -- $!";
$trimmed=IO::File->new_tmpfile || die "unable to create tmp file -- $!";

while()
{
     {at}binkdate=split(" ");
     {at}binktime=split(/:/,$binkdate[3]);
     {at}binkdate=($year, $moy{$binkdate[2]}, $binkdate[1],
                 $binktime[0],$binktime[1],$binktime[2]);
     {at}diff=Delta_DHMS({at}binkdate,{at}today) if /(\[\d+\])/;
     print $trimmed $_ if $diff[0] < $ARGV[1] && defined({at}diff);
     next  if defined({at}diff);
     print $trimmed $_ if ! /(\[\d+\])/;
     undef({at}diff);
}
close binkd;
seek($trimmed,0,0);
copy ($trimmed, $ARGV[0])
##########################################################################



--- GoldED/spleen 3.0.1+