Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Including output of a command?

[Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>]

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On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:36:21PM -0500, Rory Hunter wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I don't suppose it's possible to include the output of a system command i=
n=20
> a docment somehow, i.e. with some hackery like,
>=20
> <!ENTITY date CMD "date +%A %e %B">

How are you managing your builds?  We use make here, and I do the above
like this:

Makefile fragment:

    SRCS=3D date.txt Makefile glossary.sgml *sgml *ent
    ...
    # Create a file containing the date.
    CLEANFILES+=3Ddate.txt
    date.txt: *sgml *ent
	    date > date.txt

book.ent fragment:

    <!ENTITY date SYSTEM "date.txt">


book.sgml fragment:

    <para>Version: pre-release/&date;</para>

Joe





I do this with=20
>=20
> or an equivalent? Obviously competely unportable, but it'd be quite nifty.
>=20
> --=20
> roryh

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