Hello, Did you try with the alternative substitution syntax ("$(date +%F)" in place of "`date +%F`") ?
Did you try to replace "%F" with "%Y-%m-%d" ? Did you try to escape the % ("\%")? I don't know Xface, so I give you advices with my Bash skills. Good luck. Hogren On 14/03/2017 00:10, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I'm trying to add to Xface menu: Configure Custom Actions > This: > pdfunite %N folder/`date +%F`-output.pdf > > The file in dir folder gets created ("-output.pdf") but is missing the date. > > This works from command line: > pdfunite 1.pdf 2.pdf folder/`date +%F`-output.pdf > > What kind of bracket am I missing? >