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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Date function question Post 6994 by PxT on Monday 17th of September 2001 01:41:15 PM
Old 09-17-2001
Quote:
Originally posted by Optimus_P
why not just run it from cron @ end of bussiness day or even at 11:55pm then u dont have to worry about adding and subtracting from the date.?
Then what if something happens at 11:56, that wont be reflected in the log file. One solution might be to do something like:

Code:
DATESTRING=`date +%m%d%Y`

sleep 120

# run report, redirect to $DATESTRING.txt

Run it at 11:59pm from crontab...
 

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