[TriLUG] dayname in cron ?

S B merlin180 at hotmail.com
Thu Feb 1 21:05:14 EST 2007


Hi 

I'm trying to redirect the output of a cron job to a file with the current day in the filename. The following demo works but includes the full date:


  */1  *   *   *   *   echo hello >/var/test-$(date).txt


so I'm trying to pass the %a fomat string to 'date':


  */1  *   *   *   *     echo hello >/var/test-$(date +"%a").txt  


however this (and numerous other variations) don't work - any suggestions?

Simon...


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