On 2009-06-10 10:08, James Bensley wrote:
> Hey list,
>
> I have several crontabs set up to run at night and I'm not convinced
> they are running but of course, I'm not here to see for sure!
> The crontabs are like the following example;
>
> 30 20 * * * sh /home/a_user/nightlyscrips/nightly_script_1 >
> /home/a_user/nightlyscripts/`date +%d-%m-%Y--%H-%M-%S`.log
Somewhere deeply hidden in "man 5 crontab", there is the paragraph:
The "sixth" field [...] Percent-signs (%) in the command, unless escaped
with backslash (\), will be changed into newline characters, and
all data after the first % will be sent to the command as
standard input.
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* I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, ^^, *
* quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, ~., *
* stop, end, ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, KJOB, *
* ^X^X, :D::D, kill -9 1, kill -1 $$, shutdown, init 0, Alt-F4, *
* Alt-f-e, Ctrl-Alt-Del, Alt-SysRq-reisub, Stop-A, AltGr-NumLock, ... *
* ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out *
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