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why do these cronjob not run?

Hi,

I use to be able to do stuff like this with Solaris is there some reason why these lines in my crontab don't work with RH9?

Code:

# blah blah

SHELL=/bin/bash

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

MAILTO=dog

MYts=`date +%Y%m%d%H%M`



# these do NOT run

* * * * * export MYts="XYZ" ;; echo $MYts > test_file_1

* * * * * MYts=`date` ;; export MYts ;; echo $MYts > test_file_2

* * * * * MYts=`date` ;; echo $MYts > test_file_2a

* * * * * echo "Hello" > test_file_`date +%H%M`



# this does run

* * * * * date > test_file_3

export MYts="XYZ" ;; echo $MYts > test_file_1
should work OK.

Try picking up the date this way:
MYts=$(date)

Try changing:
echo "Hello" > test_file_`date +%H%M`
to:
echo "Hello" > test_file_$(date +'%H%M')

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Steve Stites