Re: cron sh ?

[Andy Wettstein <awettstein@cait.org>]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 01:04:35PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a cron script and a line:
> 
> ... wget ... -O ~/Base$(data +%H%M).gif
> 
> and I get the error
> 
> /bin/sh: -c: line1: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `)'
> /bin/sh: -c: line2: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> 
> I am guessing that because I am running bash via cron that I am missing
> slashes or I need to enclose the command in quotes?
> 
> How do I fix this?

'%' is no good in crontabs, they get changed to newline.  You need 
to use '\%'.  Try 'man 5 crontab'

> 
> Lance
> 
> 
> 
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