Cron fails on single apostrophe

Question

The following does work as expected:

date +\'%d-%b-%Y-%H-%M\'

28-Sep-2009-14-28

But none of the following 4 entries from crontab are working.

* *         


        

Answer 1

As long as there are no spaces in the format string supplied as an argument to date, you should not need the ticks at all.

date +%d-%b-%Y-%H-%M

should work.