referencing in files

[Jarrod - Cybertek]

First, thanks. What I just wanted to try out is to have my /etc/motd updated
automatically from a changing value in another text file. So that way I
wouldn't have to update both every time. No way for that? Thanks.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Kris Kennaway
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 9:58 AM
> To: Jarrod Meyer
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: referencing in files
> 
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 09:23:35AM +0200, Jarrod Meyer wrote:
> > What I meant was, kinda like if you have a changing value in one file,
> > right? And you want it to automatically update in another file without
> > having to always manually do it yourself and without writing a script,
> can
> > you just link/reference the changing value in the first file to a point
in
> > the second so that it becomes automated?
> 
> As I said, no, but if you tell us what you're specifically trying to
> achieve there might be another way.
> 
> Kris