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Date:      Mon, 4 Aug 2003 18:08:55 -0700
From:      Jim Pazarena <paz@qcislands.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   cron question
Message-ID:  <20030805010855.GA34731@qcislands.net>

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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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