Thank you! Knew it was probably something simple I was overlooking. That got it working.
Paul On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 2:16 AM John R. Dennison <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 02:03:25AM -0600, Paul Boniol wrote: > > > > > crontab -e as my usual user. > > > > 0 0 * * * timeout 4h cvlc -I dummy > > https://stream.revma.ihrhls.com/zc2149/hls.m3u8 :no-video > > > :sout="#transcode{acodec=mp3,ab=128}:std{access=file,mux=dummy,dst=/home/paul/Audio/Coast-$(date > > '+%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S').mp3" > > Any '%' in a crontab needs to be escaped as it has special meaning to > cron: > > "A "%" character in the command, unless escaped with a backslash (\), > will be changed into newline characters, and all data after the first % > will be sent to the command as standard input." > > (man 5 crontab) > > -- > Live every day like it's your last because someday you're going to be > right. > > -- Muhammad Ali > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/20201211081614.GF5777%40elros.gerdesas.com > . > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAL9PgS2cBtFCTeux%2B%2BNBZB%3DX52gCPCQQ%2BFM-4t%2Bb4Nx5U9qtdw%40mail.gmail.com.
