bash OK, Cron job not?

[James Kosin]

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Mark Haney wrote:
> John Horne wrote:
>> On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 12:42 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
>>> I have a strange problem I can't seem to figure out.  Maybe it's the
>>> newbie in me. Below I have the following running in a cron job:
>>>
>>> mail -s "LDM missing files totals: LDM1 `date +%D`" ....
>>>
>>> Now, from bash this works perfectly, I get the date and everything.  But
>>> from cron I get this:
>>>
>>>> /bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``'
>>>> /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
>>> Can someone explain to me why?
>>>
>> Put a backslash (\) before the percent sign in your cron job. It needs
>> escaping; this has caught me out several times :-)
>>
>> So, try:
>>
>>    mail -s "LDM missing files totals: LDM1 `date +\%D`"
>>
>>
>>
>> John.
>>
>
> I'm an idiot.  I /should/ have seen that a week ago.  Thanks.  Ignore
> the pinhead in the corner.
>
>
The only DUMB question is the one that never gets asked.

Your not DUMB or an IDIOT for asking.

- -James
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