I have two crontab entries intended for backups: tar cf "/home/bkup/saboua.xyz.tar.$( date +%Y%m%d )" /var/www/htdocs/saboua.xyz/ tar cf "/home/bkup/sylvain_dotfiles.tar.$( date+%Y%m%d )" -I /home/sylvain/.dotfiles
In the mail I get the following error: & p321 Message 321: From [email protected] Sun Oct 5 20:59:01 2025 Delivered-To: [email protected] From: [email protected] (Cron Daemon) To: [email protected] Subject: Cron <root@lap> tar cf "/home/bkup/saboua.xyz.tar.$( date + Auto-Submitted: auto-generated X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/var/log> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=root> X-Cron-Env: <USER=root> /bin/sh: no closing quote & What am I doing wrong ? Sylvain Saboua looking for a PDP-11
