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



I am trying to do approximately this in a crontab:

SHELL=/bin/bash
0 8 * * * prog >/tmp/$(date +%s).extension

and it doesn't work, the command never gets executed.  Backtick
substitution doesn't work either.  An identical command with a fixed
string in place of the $(date +%s) command substitution works perfectly.
An identical command executed on the command line works perfectly.
Anyone have any guesses as to what might be going on here?

Britton Kerin
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