10 Jun
2009
10 Jun
'09
10:33 a.m.
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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