[aclug-L] Re: Automatically entering today's date in a subject line

[Jeff <schaller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Ryan Claycamp wrote:

> The web page is in the form of xxx-MM-DD-YY.html.  I discovered
> that 'date +%m-%d-%y' gives me what I want, i.e. 10-22-99.  How do
> I get this to wget, i.e. wget xxx-DATE.html and then how do I put
> it in a subject, i.e. Web Page for DATE?  Is this even possible?

Wow, you'll love Monday's presentation :)

here's a sneak peek:

You can use backtacks to insert the results of one command 
into another:

wget xxx-`date +%m-%d-%y`.html ...

-jeff
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