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If you happen to use that for multiple operations on a file around midnight you may find yourself a little bit upset... On 5/24/07, David Johnson <dj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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'` > > 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 > -- 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