Re: Why doesn't this work in cron?

[Alan Peery]

Jeff Bearer wrote:

I'm attempting to set some variables with the output of 'date' in my
crontab but for some reason they are not being evaluated.


YESTERDAY=$(date +%Y%m%d -d yesterday)
* * * * * root echo $YESTERDAY

When cron runs that $YESTERDAY is set to "date +%Y%m%d -d yesterday"
Why doesn't this work, and how do I get it to work?

On Friday, I learned from "man 5 crontab" that the % sign is treated like an end of line marker unless you escape it. I suspect that the "%" signs in the variable setting line is being similarly interpreted.

Alan

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