[SOLVED] Use date with touch to create new file with date based name
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Use date with touch to create new file with date based name
I am using CRON to create a new, blank file, every minute, in a specific location on my web server. After web searching, and reading man pages, I get the impression that the following command is supposed to work:
That command works fine for me. Have you tried simply running that command from the commandline? If so, and it works, what does your crontab entry look like?
Cron sees the % as being special, you need to escape it (\%).
Hope this helps.
Changed my original line:
touch /home/mydomain/var/folder/attachments/`date +%H%M`.txt
to:
touch /home/mydomain/var/folder/attachments/`date +\%H\%M`.txt
And everything just works now!
I figured something had to be escaped, but wasn't sure. Will have to read up on CRON a little more.
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