Changing timestamp file in crontab

Zak · #1 (**permalink**) 04-30-2008

Hi All

I want to change the date timestamp for the log file but to do it within crontab

I've tried the following..

40 11 * * * /data/dart/dc65.1/bin/adstats.sh > /data/dart/dc65.1/bin/adstats_`date'+%d:%m-%H.%M.%S'`.log 2>&1

But I only get adstats_

Any ideas?

Thanking you all inadvance...

Franklin52 · #2 (**permalink**) 04-30-2008

Do you have a space after the date command?

Regards

Zak · #3 (**permalink**) 04-30-2008

yup

........

frank_rizzo · #4 (**permalink**) 05-05-2008

man 5 crontab

Your probably hitting this --

Quote:

Percent-signs (%) in the command, unless escaped with back-
slash (\), will be changed into newline characters, and all data after the
first % will be sent to the command as standard input.

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