That was it - I've escaped the % with a \
Thank you Sjoerd!
On 10/6/06, Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2006-10-06 14:48, Alexander Farber wrote:
> could someone please advise me, why would
> my tar-command work fine on the command line:
>
> hXXXXXX:afarber {272} sudo tar cfCz /root/backups/htdocs-`date
> +%F`.tgz /var/www/htdocs .
> hXXXXXX:afarber {273} sudo ls -l /root/backups
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1087070 Oct 6 14:43 htdocs-2006-10-06.tgz
>
> But fails in the root's crontab:
>
> hXXXXXX:afarber {274} sudo crontab -l
> 3 3 * * * tar cfCz
> /root/backups/htdocs-`date +%F`.tgz /var/www/htdocs .
The percent is special in a crontab command. Check the manual (man 5
crontab).
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