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Re:Bash 5.0 released by hawski on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @04:01AM (#18854264)
Wouldn't "cat $today" result with "cat: No such file or directory: 2019-01-08"? Did you mean echo instead of cat?
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Re:Bash 5.0 released by flukus on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @05:40PM (#18860480)
My real life use case for these dynamic variables would be more like "cat/vim/cp $log" to get today's log file which would expand to something like /somedir/logs/201901/09/product.log. Handy when you have a large matrix of products/environments.
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Re:Bash 5.0 released by forty on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @09:41AM (#18855751)
Only in the case when no such file exists in the current directory :)
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