Re: command isn't working in crontab

[Wilko Fokken <wfokken@web.de>]

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 01:35:04AM +0200, 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

Dealing with 'crontab', I used the following time/date sequence:

 minutes  hours  day-of-month  month  day-of-week
 --------------

In your example, you started with hours, followed by minutes.

I hope, my sequence indicated above might work for you.


(Have a nice cron)

Wilko

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