[lug] cron and date command

[Gordon Golding]

I want to run a backup script and feed it today's date.  I know I can change the script and be OK, but I'm wondering about this problem.
I'm on Fedora Core 3.

If I use `date +%y%m%d` it works fine from the command line.  But I run the same command in cron and it doesn't run - it doesn't create the log or err files or run the script.

Neither of these 2 entries work. This example runs it hourly for testing. In the second example it doesn't work either as a parameter or part of the file name.

0  *    *   *   *  BACKUPNAME=name`date +%y%m%d`
0  *    *   *   *  /home/BACKUPS/Backup_to_Disk2.bsh name`date +%y%m%d` 1>/home/BACKUPS/name`date +%y%m%d`.log 2>/home/BACKUPS/name`date +%y%m%d`.err




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