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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!news.chattanooga.net!tarush!tom From: tom@tarush.chattanooga.net (Tom Rush) Subject: Re: Crontab and the % character X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: Rush Co. Message-ID: <DEqoH4.51K@tarush.chattanooga.net> References: <marcus.225.0201FF80@ccelab.iastate.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 11:41:27 GMT Lines: 20 Marcus I. Ryan (marcus@ccelab.iastate.edu) wrote: : I am running a Cron job using Crontab. The problem: : I issue the command - stathtml `date +"%B %b"` : If I use the %'s by themselves then it interprets them as special control : characters, but if I put a \ in front of each, the command is interpreted : literally (i.e. "\%B \%b"). Since \ is apparently not working quite right, is : there a different character I'm supposed to be using? I look in man cron and : man crontab but neither even mentioned the problem. This will work: stathtml `date +\%'B '\%'b'` : I would greatly appreciate email responses (CC'd to questioner) -- Tom Rush tom@tarush.chattanooga.net