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    <p>I setup a script on my dedicated server to backup all of my Cpanel backup files to Amazon S3, and I've got it running every night via cron.</p> <p>It ran perfectly last night and backed everything up, but then proceeded to delete all it had backed up. It appears to have something to do with the <code>date</code> command because if I pull the "deletion" portion of the script out and put it into another file and run it as an echo, I can't get the date to echo properly. I keep getting a "command not found" error:</p> <p>Here's the full code for the backup script:</p> <pre><code>#!/bin/bash ##Notification email address _EMAIL=klawncare1212@gmail.com ERRORLOG=/var/log/s3_backup_logs/backup.err`date +%F` ACTIVITYLOG=/var/log/s3_backup_logs/activity.log`date +%F` ##Directory which needs to be backed up SOURCE=/backup/cpbackup/daily ##Name of the backup in bucket DESTINATION=`date +%F` ##Backup degree DEGREE=4 #Clear the logs if the script is executed second time :&gt; ${ERRORLOG} :&gt; ${ACTIVITYLOG} ##Uploading the daily backup to Amazon s3 /usr/bin/s3cmd -r put ${SOURCE} s3://MK_Web_Server_Backup/${DESTINATION}/ 1&gt;&gt;${ACTIVITYLOG} 2&gt;&gt;${ERRORLOG} ret2=$? ##Sent email alert msg="BACKUP NOTIFICATION ALERT FROM `hostname`" if [ $ret2 -eq 0 ];then msg1="Amazon s3 DAILY Backup Uploaded Successfully" else msg1="Amazon s3 DAILY Backup Failed!!\n Check ${ERRORLOG} for more details" fi echo -e "$msg1"|mail -s "$msg" ${_EMAIL} ####################### ##Deleting backup's older than DEGREE days ## Delete from both server and amazon ####################### DELETENAME=$(date --date="${DEGREE} days ago" +%F) /usr/bin/s3cmd -r --force del s3://MK_Web_Server_Backup/${DELETENAME} 1&gt;&gt;${ACTIVITYLOG} 2&gt;&gt;${ERRORLOG} </code></pre> <p>And here is the sample code that I am testing to try and simply echo the date code above:</p> <pre><code>#!/bin/bash ##Backup degree DEGREE=4 ####################### ##Deleting backup's older than DEGREE days ## Delete from both server and amazon ####################### DELETENAME=$(date --date="4 days ago" +%F) echo ${DELETENAME} </code></pre> <p>What am I doing wrong? Every time I run this small test script on my CentOS linux server through SSH I get the following error:</p> <p>"date --date=4 days ago: command not found"</p> <p>So, it's not having any trouble inserting the "degree" variable value. And, if I simply take and run the same command at the prompt in SSH (<code>date --date="4 days ago" +%F</code>), it works like a charm, outputting the data just as I would expect it to.</p> <p>What am I doing wrong?</p>
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    1. COWhen you say you run it through SSH, what is the exact command you are typing? That error looks like what you would get if you tried $ "date --date=4 days ago" +%F (note where I put the quotation marks)
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    2. COWell, to run the script I've tried sh /path/to/script/script_name.sh and also bash /path/to/script/script_name.sh -- same error either way. Running the command itself at the command prompt, I'm typing exactly: date --date="4 days ago" +%F -- with the quotes exactly where you see them, and then hitting enter and getting the proper response.
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    3. COYour test script works fine for me over ssh to a CentOS server. By the way, chepner asked you for the exact command you're using and you didn't answer precisely. Please do that.
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