Re: [LUG] Just a silly command line question

[James Fidell <james@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Marvell wrote:
> Martijn wrote:
> 
>> 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?
> 
> date +'%Y%m%d.log' | xargs cat

I think that must deserve some kind of prize for the most gratuitous use
of xargs :)

James

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