Re: [PLUG] dynamic file (script output)

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@netaxs.com>]

On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 08:27:14PM -0500, MaD dUCK wrote:
> also sprach Walt Mankowski (on Sun, 19 Nov 2000 08:21:05PM -0500):
> > Try using backticks:
> > 
> > $ echo `date`
> > Sun Nov 19 20:19:31 EST 2000
> 
> that does not answer the question. i don't want to echo anything, i
> want to /bin/cat a pseudo-file which is really just stdout of one
> invocation of something like /bin/date.

OK then, why do you want to do this?  What's the advantage of being
able to cat the file instead of just executing it directly?

Walt

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