08-31-2010
In addition to the type of quotes, the "%" character is special to cron (it means "newline"). All the "%" characters need quoting as "\%".
You will be better putting long commands into a script file and executing that from cron. This also gives you somewhere to set the environment for your commands.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
cron-apt
CRON-APT(8) System Manager's Manual CRON-APT(8)
NAME
cron-apt -- program to update the system using apt-get
SYNOPSIS
cron-apt [configfile]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the cron-apt command.
cron-apt is a program that uses the information in /etc/cron-apt/action.d/ as arguments to apt-get line by line in file order.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is
included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.
--help
Show summary of options.
CONFIGURATION
Configuration can be done by editing /etc/cron-apt/config and by adding rules to /etc/cron-apt/action.d/ The variables that you can set in
/etc/cron-apt/config is documented in the configuration example in /usr/share/doc/cron-apt/examples/config
From version 0.5.0 the optional FILTERCTRLM attribute is deprecated.
SEE ALSO
apt-get (1)
aptitude (1)
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Ola Lundqvist ola@inguza.com for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). This manual is
free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
CRON-APT(8)