On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:52:34PM +0200, Bigbrother wrote:
>
> Hi friends,
>
> Recently I put into my crontab the following line
>
> 4 0 */10 * * /usr/bin/tar -cyf /backup/lab.`date "+%d%m%Y"`.tar.bz /lab
>
> But although I can execute the command into my shell, crond refuses to
> execute and send me an email saying:
>
> <<Syntax error: EOF in backquote substitution>>
>
>
> What am I doing wrong? I suspect that my problem relies on having a tcsh
> as my default shell, but crontab perhaps is running a different shell.
Crontab treats '%' characters specially --- see crontab(5). It will
automatically replace a '%' character with a newline, as a method of
being able to include multiline shell input into the crontab file.
To get a literal '%', type '\%'.
Cheers,
Matthew
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