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ctferrara

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Nov 7, 2008
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I just discovered "Prowl" for the iphone and also growl notify.

so my question is...is it possible to run a terminal command inside of a command.

for example. growlnotify -m date "+%A, %B %d"

and have it execute the date part before the growlnotify therefore displaying the current date in the growl message.

thanks
 

lee1210

macrumors 68040
Jan 10, 2005
3,182
3
Dallas, TX
You should be able to backtick the date command and get it going:
growlnotify -m "`date "+%A, %B %d"` here is the rest of the message"

-Lee
 
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