Fwd: Cron <root at hXXXXXX> tar cfCz /root/backups/htdocs-`date +

[Alexander Farber]

That was it - I've escaped the % with a \

Thank you Sjoerd!

On 10/6/06, Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd at acm.org> wrote:
> On 2006-10-06 14:48, Alexander Farber wrote:
> > could someone please advise me, why would
> > my tar-command work fine on the command line:
> >
> > hXXXXXX:afarber {272} sudo tar cfCz /root/backups/htdocs-`date
> > +%F`.tgz /var/www/htdocs .
> > hXXXXXX:afarber {273} sudo ls -l /root/backups
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1087070 Oct  6 14:43 htdocs-2006-10-06.tgz
> >
> > But fails in the root's crontab:
> >
> > hXXXXXX:afarber {274} sudo crontab -l
> > 3       3       *       *       *       tar cfCz
> > /root/backups/htdocs-`date +%F`.tgz /var/www/htdocs .
>
> The percent is special in a crontab command.  Check the manual (man 5
> crontab).
>
> --
> Sjoerd Mullender

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