On Mon, 18 May 1998, John P. Donaldson wrote:
# This is probably a stupid question but I'm relatively new to this. I'm
There is no such thing as a stupid question :)
# I would like to be able to run the macro without having to give it the
# current date as an argument, I just don't know how to get grep to
# understand the date command. This is how I would like it to look:
#
# grep date +"%b/%Y" file1 > file2
#
# How do I enclose the [date +"%b/%Y"] command inside the grep command. I
# tried enclosing the date command within ",', {, and [ and none seemed to
# work.
You almost have it :)
grep `date +%b/%Y` file1 > file2
The `` ticks say, "run this command and substitute the result RIGHT
THERE" :) [ hows THAT for a non-technical explanation? :) ]
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