UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

AIX,

Why does this work:
0 8 * * * export TEST=mytest;echo "Hello" > $HOME/$TEST.log 2>&1

But not this (or any variations thereof):

0 8 * * * export LOGFILE=$(date +%Y%m%d);echo "Hello" > $HOME/$LOGFILE.log 2>&1

Is it possible to set variables this way in cron?? It will work also if like this:

0 8 * * * ksh somefile.ksh;echo "Hello" > $HOME/$LOGFILE.log 2>&1

where somefile.ksh has "export LOGFILE=`date +%Y%m%d`" but I don't want to do it this way. I want to chain the commands in cron.

Gianni

Everything after a % is stripped off and fed to the command as standard input.