Re: Why doesn't this work in cron?

[Alan Peery <peery io com>]

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?
On Friday, I learned from "man 5 crontab" that the % sign is treated 
like an end of line marker unless you escape it.  I suspect that the "%" 
signs in the variable setting line is being similarly interpreted.

Alan

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