Solution for: #51: Broken shell command substitution in crontab

Escape percent signs in crontabs

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- yliu on September 28, 2010, 02:25 PM UTC

Percent signs must be escaped in crontab, as % has special meaning in crontabs. Use backslash to escape.

References used:

crontab, command substitution and bash

( http://www.mydatabasesupport.com/forums/shell/176999-crontab-command-substitution-bash.html# ) - found by yliu on June 04, 2009, 11:14 AM UTC

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