Public bug reported:
The manual for crontab(5) shows various examples of using the date command as
such:
$(date +%u)
This contradicts the note specifying that any % sign needs to be escaped
Entering something like that as a command for execution fails to
interpret anything past the % sign.
so, for example:
* * * * * echo $(date +%Y)
fails with
/bin/sh: 1: Syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting ")")
The syslog shows this
CRON[10104]: (root) CMD (echo $(date +)
Simply escaping the % resolves it, so in this example, the manual should
be updated so that each 'date' example looks as
$(date +\%u) - or whatever the format character example is.
My example cron from above executes as expected as
* * * * * echo $(date +\%Y)
which send me an email simply with "2013"
** Affects: cron (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Patch added: "cron-man.patch"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1110147/+attachment/3507174/+files/cron-man.patch
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