Why archives are hanging ...

Here is the cause:

root    66170 96.2  0.1  2316  792  ??  RJ    6:59AM 430:11.37 perl -e $i=<STDIN>;print substr($i,0,4) . "-" .
substr($i,4,2);(perl5.8.7) 

Specifically, in my script:

     set fdate = `echo $j | \
                  awk -F. '{print $4}' | \
                  perl -e '$i=<STDIN>;print substr($i,0,4) . "-" . substr($i,4,2);'`


Where $j would be equal to something like:

/usr/local/www/archives.postgresql.org/majordomo/pgsql-hackers/files/public/archive/pgsql-hackers.200512

Can someone suggest a cleaner way of doing this?  Specifically, I'm just
converting the last part (200512) to 2005-12 ...

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