Hello people,
I am trying to run a script in crontab like this:
15 05 * * * /home/apps/DOLLS.sh `date +%Y%m%d`
But it is not taking the runtime argument.
Am I committing any mistake or is there any way we can run commands on the fly in from crontab?

I cant understand what you are trying to do ?

- nilesh

My scripts DOLLS.sh takes today's date as a run time argument. So I am trying to pass today's date when I am trying to run it from crontab but it is not taking it. Instead I am getting a blank in its place.
Thanks.

I tried on my hosts....
somehow cron not able to understand % character. so it does not proceed after that. Need to check what we can do.

I found this in log.
- nilesh

'man crontab' and search for '%'

edit the sh to read the date from a config file

Hi ,Rajat,

I think , u can try what vgersh99 has said. The "\" might work.

Kindly post whether it had worked or not......