On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 18:58:06 +1100
Peter Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, I think you've got it the wrong way around. The one line
> version works for today.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ( wday -q || wday -q `/bin/date -d yesterday +%Y%m%d` ) && echo
> Hello
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
>
at a tangent to the main question, did you actually check this in cron?
Because % is used to insert newlines in crontab and needs to be escaped
(with \).
example from 'man 5 crontab':
0 22 * * 1-5 mail -s "It___s 10pm" joe%Joe,%%Where are your kids?%
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Matt
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