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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting cron a script and output to file named with date stamp Post 302518450 by landog on Friday 29th of April 2011 04:31:11 PM
Old 04-29-2011
cron a script and output to file named with date stamp
I can do this from the command line:
Code:
/home/mylogin/tests/script.sh > /home/mylogin/tests/`date +"%Y%m%d"`log.csv

It yields a file named: 20110429log.csv

I would like to schedule with cron to run daily.

when I enter the same line, as above in cron:
Code:
10 16 * * * /home/mylogin/tests/script.sh > /home/mylogin/tests/`date +"%Y%m%d"`log.csv

...it trucates at the first percent sign and yields a cron error:
unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
...cron executes:
/home/mylogin/tests/script.sh > /home/mylogin/tests/`date +"

It was suggested that I escape the percent sign:
Code:
10 16 * * * /home/mylogin/tests/script.sh > /home/mylogin/tests/`date +"\%Y\%m\%d"`log.csv

However, that doesn't seem to execute at all. I get no ouitput file and no sign of a cron error.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
-dog
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 05-01-2011 at 07:10 AM.. Reason: added code tags
 

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