On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 09:57:18AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:34:06AM +0800, Isaac Claymore wrote:
> > WEEK_DAY=`date +\%A`
> > 30 23 * * * mount /backup && mysqldump --password=FOOBAR --all-databases >
> > /backup/alldb-${WEEK_DAY}.sql; umount /backup
> >
> > It's been working on RH system, but the Debian cron keeps refusing to do command
> > expansion on WEEK_DAY, i.e. the script produces a file named: alldb-`date +\%A`.sql
> >
> > Any hint?
>
> A little on the simple-minded side, but have you considered just not
> using the variable? I have a cron job that does
>
> 12 4 * * 2 /some/script | mail -s "Info for `date +'\%B \%-d, \%Y'`" [EMAIL
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> and it has never given me any trouble.
Thanks, but I've got multiple crontab entries that use `date +\%A`, so it looks
better to me to assign it to a variable.
>
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