I just noticed the same bug. It is in:
3.0pl1-120ubuntu4
but not in:
3.0pl1-124ubuntu2
It has already been fixed in 2011 in the debian-cron-git repo:
git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-cron/pkg-cron.git
commit fe274309d8d7e7787e06d2cb88ec4ed280b63805
Author: Javier Fernandez-Sanguino
Date:
Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-116
Severity: normal
Hi,
Amongst the examples given in crontab(5), one can find:
# Run on every second Saturday of the month
0 4 8-14 * *test $(date +%u) -eq 6 && echo "2nd Saturday"
This doesn't work, because % is special (in the same
manpage: "Percent-signs
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