On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Gabor Gludovatz wrote: > I'd like to set up an auto-backup from cron. I run taper with the > following command line, but it always gives me its help without any error > message. > > taper --append-on --erase-tape-off --unattended-id -1 -g `date` -t "Aryo > ($(LANG=de_DE date "+%A"))" -U @default > > What's wrong with it? And why does taper give no errors if something's > wrong?
missing quotation marks... taper --append-on --erase-tape-off --unattended-id -1 -g "$(date)" -t "Aryo ($(LANG=de_DE date "+%A"))" -U @default it works this way. -- Gabor Gludovatz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sopron.hu/~ggabor/