#51: Broken shell command substitution in crontab

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In a cronjob, I want to execute a date sub-command and substitute the results in place into the overall shell command. Something like: 1 5 * * * bash -c 'cp /foo/bar /foo/bar.$(date +%Y%m%d).sql' Unfortunately, this breaks with an error at runtime: /bin...

#28: crontab settings for deploying Ultrasphinx

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the SelfSolved instance deployed uses Ultrasphinx for its full-text indexer and search provider. The sphinx indexer needs to be run regularly to index new text that appears on the site. I need crontab incantations to set the indexer to create delta indexes...