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Old 09-17-2008, 07:14 AM   #1
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call a file dated yesterday


Hi,

I used to run a script , which output is piped to myscript.log_$(date +\%F).
The log file is created in the form of myscript.log_2008-09-15. Now , say today is 2008-09-16. I want to call the file myscript.log_2008-09-16 using a command. How can I do it?

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Old 09-17-2008, 07:18 AM   #2
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Old 09-17-2008, 07:34 AM   #3
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