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Bug#933396: Why this bug report can be closed (again?)

From	Georges Khaznadar <georges.khaznadar@orange.fr>
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Subject	Bug#933396: Why this bug report can be closed (again?)
Date	2022-05-12 10:00 +0200
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@garbage_collector@nym.hush.com:
Thanks to Christian Kastner, here is a clue for the buggy behavior you
noticed:

The manual page of crontab (5) states that
------------------8<--------------------------------
   The entire command portion of the line, up to a newline or a "%"
   character, will be executed by /bin/sh or by the shell specified in
   the SHELL variable of the cronfile.  A "%" character in the command,
   unless escaped with a backslash (\), will be changed into newline
   characters, and  all data after the first % will be sent to the
   command as standard input.
------------------8<--------------------------------

So the line
@reboot root echo Logged time = %time% %date% >> /home/marc/log.txt
is most probably not interpreted as you thought.

Best regards,			Georges.

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