I think that I was not clear about what I want here.
All that I want is to touch a file everyday at 2:30 with name as
i have this example of..
`
but it doesn't work, leave alone do what i want..
expecting the date command should work as it does at the prompt, but seemingly commands between ` ` are not executed becuse it IS creating the file but as "abcd-". That's it.
@porter..
Sorry, I didn't get you.. if you'd understood and ur post is still applicable.
@prowla..
thanx for pointing out..
Last edited by pranavagarwal; 12-11-2007 at 05:50 AM..
Reason: elaboration
Hi
I tried to put a cron job which pipes the logfile appended to date +%d
but it didnt work .
anyone know how to make this happen
thanks in advance
-prasad (7 Replies)
Hello Experts,
I am facing problem in date command with TZ
test.sh
Output : 26-May-2010 27-May-2010
I scheduled this script everyday at 1 a.m
00 01 * * * sh test.sh
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Hi Expert,
I am using TZ for extracting yesterday date and day before yesterday date
example :
date_yes=`TZ="GMT+28" date +'%d-%b-%Y'`
date_dbyes=`TZ="GMT+48" date +'%d-%b-%Y'`
echo $date_yes $date_dbyes
26-May-2010 27-May-2010
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= (7.30pm) & (1st to 7th day of the month) & (MAR, APR, SEP, OCT) & (Sat)
30 19 1-7... (1 Reply)
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Hi,
on AIX
The following
echo "rr" > myfile_$(date +"%m_%d_%Y").log
gives:
myfile_10_23_2019.log
But in crontab:
00 03 * * 1-6 /u01/script.sh >/tmp/myfile_$(date +"%m_%d_%Y").log 2>&1
gives:
myfile_Wed Oct 23 03:00:00 CEST 2019
How can one have:
myfile_10_23_2019.log (6 Replies)