macOS Simple Terminal Question

[ctferrara]

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]

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