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On Thursday 24 May 2007 11:27, Martijn wrote: > Hello. > > If I run the command > date +'%Y%m%d.log' > it returns > 20070524.log > (well, it does today). Now I would like to extend the command to use > the output as a file name and do something to that file (e.g. cat, > less, etc.). Is that possible to do in one line? > Simply put backticks around the command, e.g. cat `date +'%Y%m%d.log'` Regards, David. -- David Johnson www.david-web.co.uk -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html