cron question

Jim Pazarena paz at qcislands.net
Mon Aug 4 18:08:56 PDT 2003


I am trying to grep for a record from a crob job...
the entry looks like this:
 58  23 * * *   grep `date "+%Y-%m-%d "` /log/fylename | mail admin      

cron complains:
  Syntax error:  EOF in backquote substitution

could someone enlighten me please?

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