On Thu, 01 Jun 2017, SUZANNE COBB wrote:
> I try to capture the date and time into a variable named 'dt':
>
> dt= $(date '+%d/%m/%Y %H:%M:%S');
>
> echo "%dt" "Changed ${DYN_DOMAIN} from ${registeredIp} to ${externalIp}" >>
> /var/log/updated-ddns.log
I think you want echo "$dt" "Cha[...].
% is generally only used to refer to a job specification.
Finally, you're probably better off using the "logger" command in
util-linux to write to log files, not appending to a file directly.
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