On 4 Feb 2003, Jeff Bearer wrote:
> YESTERDAY=$(date +%Y%m%d -d yesterday)
> * * * * * root echo $YESTERDAY
As far as I know, cron is not bash, and is not sourcing the crontab, so
bash-specific features like command substitution will not work the way
you're doing it.
Why not just add the command substitution to the crontab command line?
* * * * * root echo $(date +%Y%m%d -d yesterday)
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