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running crontab at last day of mont
Name: rg2dm Date: May 25, 2005 at 11:51:30 Pacific OS: Fedora 3 CPU/Ram: 2.8ghz / 512MB
Comment:
Trying to run a command on the last day of the month. Below is my cron entry. However, it returns an error. I am assuming there is a syntax error, but I have tried many combinations with quotes, ticks, double quotes, etc.
Name: Wolfbone Date: May 26, 2005 at 04:33:16 Pacific
Reply:
That thread may not be very helpful. From the manpage:
The ``sixth'' field (the rest of the line) specifies the command to be run. The entire command portion of the line, up to a newline or % character, will be executed by /bin/sh or by the shell specified in the SHELL variable of the cronfile. Percent-signs (%) in the command, unless escaped with back- slash (\), 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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