On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 08:11:31PM -0900, Britton wrote: > > I am trying to do approximately this in a crontab: > > SHELL=/bin/bash > 0 8 * * * prog >/tmp/$(date +%s).extension > > Anyone have any guesses as to what might be going on here?
Someone hasn't read the manuals...? ;)
man 5 crontab:
Percent-signs (%) in the command, unless
escaped with backslash (\), will be changed into newline
characters, and all data after the first % will be sent to
the command as standard input.
...yes, I was wondering this one myself once. :)
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