adding date to cron log

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi. I'm trying to output the current date to a cronjob log file. Nothing seems to work, echo $(date), echo `date` or just date in the script. I'm using /sbin/sh

Any ideas? Thanks, John

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The below works to make the logfile from a cron entry date specific:

00 11 * * * /scripts/scriptname.sh > /logs/log`date +%d%m%y`.log 2>&1

Or in the script:

DATE_STAMP=` date +%Y%m%d`

echo ${DATE_STAMP}

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FILE_NAME=file_${DATE_STAMP}.log

do something > $FILE_NAME

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Thanks. Actually, all of these work along with echo $(date) etc. The problem seems to be that the date echo is being overwritten by an stty error in the .profile which is being called next...