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On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 12:37 +0100, David Johnson wrote: > 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'` > Do a touch first: touch `date +'%Y%m%d.log'` then the cat/less/whatever. John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839 -- 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