Re: command isn't working in crontab

[Neal Murphy <neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu>]

On Friday, September 28, 2012 07:35:04 PM Tomas Hulata wrote:
> Hello, below command works in command line but not as a cronjob can
> someone explain me why?
> 
> 23 58  * * *   root    cd /some_path/;mkdir "CAM1-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)";mv
> ./CAM1/*.* ./"CAM1-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)"/;mkdir "CAM2-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)";mv
> ./CAM2/*.* ./"CAM2-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)"/
> 
> I want to move files from /some_path/CAM1 directory to directory called
> CAM1-'today date' and the  same for /some_path/CAM2 directory

Perhaps cron doesn't know how to run those commands. Try:
23 58  * * *   root    /bin/bash -c "cd /some_path/;mkdir \"CAM1-$(date +%d.
%m.%Y)\";mv ./CAM1/*.* ./\"CAM1-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)\"/;mkdir \"CAM2-$(date +%d.
%m.%Y)\";mv ./CAM2/*.* ./\"CAM2-$(date +%d.%m.%Y)\"/"