what command is root? better see man 5 crontab
raymundo Mark Lundy wrote:
Try "eval YESTERDAY=$(date +%Y%m%d -d yesterday)"
Or, put it in a script that you can run from cron and returns the value you want
Jeff Bearer wrote:
I'm attempting to set some variables with the output of 'date' in my
crontab but for some reason they are not being evaluated.
YESTERDAY=$(date +%Y%m%d -d yesterday)
* * * * * root echo $YESTERDAY
When cron runs that $YESTERDAY is set to "date +%Y%m%d -d yesterday"
Why doesn't this work, and how do I get it to work?
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