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. -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Technology Services Tel +32 16 397.525 Interleuvenlaan 86, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.552 *********************************************************************** * 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 * ***********************************************************************