Re: command substitution in a crontab with SHELL=/bin/bash

[paolo pedaletti <paolop@matapp.unimib.it>]

Ciao Britton,

> SHELL=/bin/bash
> 0 8 * * * prog >/tmp/$(date +%s).extension
> 
> and it doesn't work, the command never gets executed.  Backtick

maybe date is not in cron PATH, try to use
/bin/date

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