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Create A Daily Notes File Using A Ruby Shell Script
The following snippet launches a new gedit file with todays date when executed from a bash script.
gedit `ruby -e "puts %q(m/notes%s.txt) % Time.now.strftime('%d%m%y')"`
observed: gedit starts with a new file called notes050210.txt in the ~/m directory.
