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Asked: 2010-10-15 20:26:16 +0800 CST

Can I run a command WITHIN another command?

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Can I run a command within another command for example:

twidge update date

date being the bash command date so effectively, twidge will update twitter with today's date. twidge is a CLI based twitter client.

command-line bash twitter

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  1. Best Answer

    You can try escaping the command like so

    twidge update "$(date)"

    Which will execute date and concatenate the output of the command into the twidge command.

    According to the twidge help info

    You can also omit the status, in which case a single line will be read from stdin and taken as your update. Example:

    date | twidge update

    Just pipe the command to twidge via stdin.

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  2. Yep, if I understand you properly, this will do it:

    twidge update `date`

    If twidge doesn't like it, try twidge update "$(date)", quotation marks to pass it in as one long string.

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