Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:03:51 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CRON and error message 'EOF in bacquote substitution' Message-ID: <20030310130351.GC90774@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <000701c2e703$ec3bb7d0$e203a8c0@macedon> References: <000701c2e703$ec3bb7d0$e203a8c0@macedon>
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On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 02:52:34PM +0200, Bigbrother wrote:
>
> Hi friends,
>
> Recently I put into my crontab the following line
>
> 4 0 */10 * * /usr/bin/tar -cyf /backup/lab.`date "+%d%m%Y"`.tar.bz /lab
>
> But although I can execute the command into my shell, crond refuses to
> execute and send me an email saying:
>
> <<Syntax error: EOF in backquote substitution>>
>
>
> What am I doing wrong? I suspect that my problem relies on having a tcsh
> as my default shell, but crontab perhaps is running a different shell.
Crontab treats '%' characters specially --- see crontab(5). It will
automatically replace a '%' character with a newline, as a method of
being able to include multiline shell input into the crontab file.
To get a literal '%', type '\%'.
Cheers,
Matthew
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