about quote in command

[Sjoerd Mullender]

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
> 
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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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Sjoerd Mullender