about quote in command

[Sjoerd Mullender]

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
>>
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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)

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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Sjoerd Mullender