Hi all

how can I make the quote correct?

`tail -n 1 `date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H"`.txt`

`date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H"`.txt is file

thank you

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adrian kok wrote:
> Hi all
>
> how can I make the quote correct?
>
> `tail -n 1 `date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H"`.txt`
>
> `date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H"`.txt is file
>
> thank you
>
> Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
>
>
Well, as far as I know this works:
tail -n 1 $(date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H").txt
tail -n 1 `date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H"`.txt
or somewhat harder:
temp=`date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H"`.txt && tail -n 1 $temp

Hope this works for you.

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Gijs wrote:
> adrian kok wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> how can I make the quote correct?
>>
>> `tail -n 1 `date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H"`.txt`
>>
>> `date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H"`.txt is file
>>
>> thank you
>>
>> Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
>>
>>
> Well, as far as I know this works:
> tail -n 1 $(date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H").txt
> tail -n 1 `date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H"`.txt

Right. You can't nest the backticks. How would the shell know which
one was meant to be the start of a command and which was the end?

Bash has the $() syntax which allows for nesting of multiple commands.
Be aware that if you use that syntax, you should change the #! in your
script from /bin/sh to /bin/bash if you're concerned about the script
being portable to systems where /bin/sh and /bin/bash are not always
the same.

Adrian, what you want can be written like this:

$(tail -n 1 $(date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H").txt)

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adrian kok wrote:
> Hi all
>
> how can I make the quote correct?
>
> `tail -n 1 `date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H"`.txt`
>
> `date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H"`.txt is file
>
> thank you
>
The problem is that the first ` matches the one at the start of the
date command, and not the one after .txt, so you have to use a
different method of running a command. You can substitute $() for
one pair of back quotes.

$(tail -n 1 `date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H"`.txt)
or
`tail -n 1 $(date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H").txt`

Another way to do it, especially if you need the name in more then
one place, is to do something like this:

file_name=$(date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H").txt

tail -n 1 $file_name

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On 2007-12-06 18:59, adrian kok wrote:
> Hi all
>
> how can I make the quote correct?
>
> `tail -n 1 `date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H"`.txt`
>
> `date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H"`.txt is file
>
> thank you
>
> Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
>

All of these should work:

`tail -n 1 `date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H"`.txt`

$(tail -n 1 $(date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H").txt)

$(tail -n 1 `date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H"`.txt)

`tail -n 1 $(date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H").txt`

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On 2007-12-06 20:11, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
> On 2007-12-06 18:59, adrian kok wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> how can I make the quote correct?
>>
>> `tail -n 1 `date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H"`.txt`
>>
>> `date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H"`.txt is file
>>
>> thank you
>>
>> Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
>>
>
> All of these should work:
>
> `tail -n 1 `date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H"`.txt`
>
> $(tail -n 1 $(date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H").txt)
>
> $(tail -n 1 `date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H"`.txt)

I forgot to remove the backslashes here, it should be:
$(tail -n 1 `date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H"`.txt)

> `tail -n 1 $(date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H").txt`
>


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On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 08:11:51PM +0100, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
> On 2007-12-06 18:59, adrian kok wrote:
> > Hi all

> $(tail -n 1 $(date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H").txt)

This is the preferred syntax, because:

* The nesting problem others have noted.

* The `` syntax is deprecated and may eventually go away. It is
retained mainly for backward compatibility.

* $() will tickle parentheses matching tools in some editors such as
emacs, making the code easier to read.

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