On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 12:42 -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > I have a strange problem I can't seem to figure out. Maybe it's the > newbie in me. Below I have the following running in a cron job: > > mail -s "LDM missing files totals: LDM1 `date +%D`" .... > > Now, from bash this works perfectly, I get the date and everything. But > from cron I get this: > > > /bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``' > > /bin/sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file > > Can someone explain to me why? > Put a backslash (\) before the percent sign in your cron job. It needs escaping; this has caught me out several times :-) So, try: mail -s "LDM missing files totals: LDM1 `date +\%D`" John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839
