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10-22-2003

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Cron problem

Hi,

Recently I wrote a shell script where I have defined LOG_DATE=$(date +"%d%b") at the start of the script (which should give the date in format '20Oct') and then called this date last on in the script. There is no problem when the script is executed manually ie. when I type "script_name.sh" at command line; However, whenever the script is added to my crontab it seems to execute OK, but LOG_DATE doesn't seem to take value '20Oct' but instead '%d%M' (it doesn't seem to be interpreting the date).

Can anyone think of a reason that this may have happened or has anyone experienced simlilar problems? Any help appreciated, thanks.

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