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Unfortunately, as I indicated A & B cannot see each other. Both of these servers are located outside of our firewall at 2 different sites. Server C is located inside the firewall on our...

I have a couple of servers that can't see each other and need to copy files from one to the other. I try to invoke scp from a 3rd server that can see both servers - get error msgs that are cryptic.
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Thank you - you nailed it

I escaped the % sign and it now works fine

crontab -l >/FIXENGINE/data/crontab.$(whoami).$(date +\%a)

Thank you again

John

BTW - am running HPUX 11

I assume I'm running under Korn - note that the $(whoami) works
echo $SHELL generated an email to the acct with out a result

I did try `date +%a` (backquotes) - still didn't work

john

I have defined in cron
crontab -l >/FIXENGINE/data/crontab.$(whoami).$(date +%a)

The resulting file is named
crontab.fixadmin.

When I run the above from a command line, the file is named:...