Re: command isn't working in crontab

[Tomas Hulata <tombo@scs.sk>]

double quotes are OK but % is not, it is special character in crontab , I have found it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

On 29.09.2012 02:05, Neal Murphy wrote:

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)\"/"

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