On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 09:57:33AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 07May2020 15:01, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > /ustr/sbin/mycron: > > #!/bin/sh > > > > currentDate="$(date +'%a %b %d %T %Y')" > > echo "From cron@localhost "$currentDate >> /var/spool/mail/$USER > > Put $currentDate inside the quotes. With echo it is less of an issue, but > for many other commands you should exert more control over strings. So as a > matter of practice: > > echo "From cron@localhost $currentDate" > > If nothing else it prevents filename expansion happening to the value of > $currentDate. (Not that that will happen with the date format chosen, but > again, as a general practice in scripting.) > In my mail files each message is followed by a blank line before the next "From_" line. Is that a requirement of mbox format? If so, it may be necessary to add it to the crontab output. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie jonfu@xxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
