On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Roy Schestowitz uttered the following:
> 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
> ---
If that script really has a linefeed in the middle of the line, take it
out.
(Using $(...) instead of `...` can sometimes lead to better error
messages about this, as well.)
--
> ...Hires Root Beer...
What we need these days is a stable, fast, anti-aliased root beer
with dynamic shading. Not that you can let just anybody have root.
--- John M. Ford
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