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echo **** This test was run on `date` **** $'\r' >> $1
(See: man bash, section 'QUOTING').
As for cutting out the path: you can cut out any part of a full filename.
Just do a google seach and you will find plenty of good samples how to do this.
(I did it myself some days ago to solve the same problem, but unfortunately my script is not available at the moment and I do not exactly remember the syntax)
Now I found my script, so here are some useful examples of how to cut out different parts of /path/to/filename.ext:
FULLFILENAME=/path/to/filename.ext
# This will extract /path/to into RESULT:
RESULT="${FULLFILENAME%*/*}"
# This will extract filename.ext into RESULT:
RESULT="${FULLFILENAME##*/}"
# This will extract ext (if any) into RESULT:
# (Note: Might be improved a bit since it returns /path/to/filename if there is no period (.) in FULLFILENAME)
RESULT="${FULLFILENAME##*.}"
As I told you, these are only some useful examples of parameter expansion.
See 'Parameter expansion' in man bash.
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