On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:36:21PM -0500, Rory Hunter wrote: > I don't suppose it's possible to include the output of a system command in > a docment somehow, i.e. with some hackery like, > > <!ENTITY date CMD "date +%A %e %B"> > > or an equivalent? Obviously competely unportable, but it'd be quite nifty.
In addition to the production of a "date.txt" file by make, you can pass such information through a file descriptor. That avoids the creation of a useless file. Eg: <!ENTITY date SYSTEM "<OSFD>3"> and pass the output of the date command through FD 3: $ date | jade 3<&0 .... It gets a bit more difficult when you need several FDs, but well... -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Free-Software Engineer Ing�nieur Logiciel-Libre Free-Software time manager Responsable du temps Informatique-Libre Debian GNU/Linux developper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
