title: Cron error with using backquotes
body: <p>The following works fine from command line</p>
  
  <pre><code>/usr/bin/mysqldump -uUser -pPass Db_name &gt; /var/www/db_backup/db.`date +%Y%m%d%H%M`.sql 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but when I try to do that in cron, I get the error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>bad ` sign 
  errors in crontab file, can't install
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I saw someone else on the net solve the same problem by escaping the percent signs, but that didn't help and I tried it with just date inside backquotes with no format specifiers and still got the errors.</p>
  
  <p>I've also seen date's argument enclosed in single or double quotes, but that doesn't help either.</p>
  
  <p>Granted I could just throw it into a script and execute that I suppose - but what fun is that?</p>
  
  <p>Any ideas?  I'm using RHEL 5.</p>