cron error - date command

[Keith Bainbridge <ke1th3216@gmail.com>]

Good evening All

I have a niggling problem.Any suggestions, please?

If I run
echo `date +%d%b%Y` >>   /home/keith/.bash_history
in a xterm (Mate I think always), I get the expected result: a line in 
.bash_history reads

2020Feb01
followed by
echo `date +%Y%b%d` >>   /home/keith/.bash_history



I have this line as a cron-job, and constantly get error messages:

/bin/bash: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
/bin/bash: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file

and no output to .bash_history


Thanks for your suggests


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Keith Bainbridge

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