javan / javan/whenever

whenever add \ in front of %

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Description

It's from this line: https://github.com/javan/whenever/blob/master/lib/whenever/job.rb#L22

I would like to set :output to look like this set :output, "#{log_folder}/whenever_cron_$(date +\"%F__%T\").log"

After the deployment, I look at crontab -l. the full command looks like this:

/bin/bash -l -c 'cd /mnt/ebs/utilities/releases/20150514202232 && mkdir -p /mnt/ebs/logs/utilities/log_manager && bundle exec ruby lib/log_manager/log_manager.rb >> /mnt/ebs/logs/utilities/log_manager/whenever_cron_$(date +"\%F__\%T").log 2>&1'

It adds \ in front of %. How can I avoid this?

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Start at lib/whenever/job.rb line 22 and trace how the output is escaped before it is written to crontab. Reproduce the reported set :output case, then verify that the generated command preserves the intended date format without adding unwanted backslashes.

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Tech stack
bash, ruby
Domain
devops
Issue type
Bug
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3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
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Newbie friendliness
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