[TriLUG] dayname in cron ?

[S B]

Brad

That did it - thanks

Simon...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad Jorsch" <anomie at users.sourceforge.net>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] dayname in cron ?


> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 09:05:14PM -0500, S B wrote:
>>
>>   */1  *   *   *   *     echo hello >/var/test-$(date +"%a").txt
>
> According to the crontab file manpage ("man 5 crontab"), '%' is
> translated to a newline and everything after the first % is passed as
> standard input. So your command there is being interpreted as something
> like
>  echo 'a").txt' | sh -c 'echo hello >/var/test-$(date +"'
>
> This worked for me when I put it in my crontab:
>  */1  *   *   *   *     echo hello >/tmp/test2-$(date +"\%a").txt
>
>
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