bash OK, Cron job not?
Mark Haney
mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Mon Aug 20 16:57:48 UTC 2007
John Horne wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 12:42 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
>> I have a strange problem I can't seem to figure out. Maybe it's the
>> newbie in me. Below I have the following running in a cron job:
>>
>> mail -s "LDM missing files totals: LDM1 `date +%D`" ....
>>
>> Now, from bash this works perfectly, I get the date and everything. But
>> from cron I get this:
>>
>>> /bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
>>> /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
>> Can someone explain to me why?
>>
> Put a backslash (\) before the percent sign in your cron job. It needs
> escaping; this has caught me out several times :-)
>
> So, try:
>
> mail -s "LDM missing files totals: LDM1 `date +\%D`"
>
>
>
> John.
>
I'm an idiot. I /should/ have seen that a week ago. Thanks. Ignore
the pinhead in the corner.
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Mark Haney
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ERC Broadband
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