Re: Date in a boilerplate file

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 09:56:34AM -0700, Guido Milanese wrote:
> In a project I am developing, I have written some boilerplate files to be
> used as headers for Markdown/LaTeX documents. One of the lines contains the
> document date, and ideally it should be:
>
> date: <TODAY>

I think it's easier to use unix tools instead of vim for this.

sed "s/<TODAY>/$(date)/g" [file]...

You can specify multiple files, and make changes permanent
with -i flag.

Regards,
mat

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