On Sun 02 Feb 2020 at 17:32:59 (+1100), Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> On 2/2/20 5:22 am, songbird wrote:
> >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.
[…]
On 2/2/20 5:22 am, songbird wrote:
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.
Thankyou Songbird and Roberto.
The solution was to escape the % signs in crontab (
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 `dat
On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 09:42:25PM +1100, 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 re
On 1/2/20 10:10 pm, Teemu Likonen wrote:
If you don't want this % effect you need to escape those characters with
backslash:
echo `date +\%Y\%b\%d`
Thankyou
Worked just as I wanted.
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Keith Bainbridge [2020-02-01T21:42:25+11] wrote:
> 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
Hi.
On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 09:42:25PM +1100, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> 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 ou
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