Re: Illegal characters in cron
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 05:46:59AM +0800, csj wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting the following to work in my crontab:
>
> 30 1 * * * mailfilter -M ~/.mailfilterrc -L ~/autosave/log/mailfilter/mailfilter-`date +%Y%m%d%H%M`.log
>From crontab(5):
The ``sixth'' field (the rest of the line) specifies the command to be
run. The entire command portion of the line, up to a newline or %
character, will be executed by /bin/sh or by the shell specified in
the SHELL variable of the cronfile. Percent-signs (%) in the command,
unless escaped with backslash (\), will be changed into newline char
acters, and all data after the first % will be sent to the command as
standard input.
Ken
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Ken Irving, Research Analyst, fnkci@uaf.edu, 907-474-6152
Water and Environmental Research Center
Institute of Northern Engineering
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
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