In article <cvu763$2vlt$1@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk>,
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@schestowitz.com> wrote:
>I have been struggling to set up a nightly job that backs up a portion of my
>files. The following is a snippet from my crontab:
>
>---
>SHELL=/bin/sh
>PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin
>
>28 4 * * * tar czvf /home/roy/Main/Transfer_Archives/rss-`date
>+%Y-%m-%d`.tar.gz /home/roy/Main/Transfer
crontab(5) says:
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 backslash (\), will be changed into newline
characters, and all data after the first % will be sent to
the command as standard input.
Peter
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