Keith Bainbridge wrote: > Good evening All > > I have a niggling problem.Any suggestions, please? > > If I run > echo `date +%d%b%Y` >> /home/keith/.bash_history > in a xterm (Mate I think always), I get the expected result: a line in > .bash_history reads > > 2020Feb01 > followed by > echo `date +%Y%b%d` >> /home/keith/.bash_history > > > > I have this line as a cron-job, and constantly get error messages: > > /bin/bash: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``' > /bin/bash: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file > > and no output to .bash_history > > > Thanks for your suggests
it looks questionable to me just in that you may be writing to that file at the same time as you when you're doing something else that is also trying to write to that file. if you want a log put it in /var/log/<somefilename>.log using the rsyslog or in the journal that system-d uses via the logging interfaces. i haven't looked at cron jobs in ages. for putting something into the bash history from the command line use the history -s command so for your above idea i would use: $ history -s `date +%d%b%Y` songbird
