Re: [LUG] Just a silly command line question

[Steve Marvell <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

Steve

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