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Why is the "date" command part of zfsutils-linux.cron.d ?

Asked by mpb

On my 18.04 Ubuntu system, the file /etc/cron.d/zfsutils-linux comes from the zfsutils-linux package. This package is built by zfs-linux_0.7.12-1ubuntu5.dsc.

The file /etc/cron.d/zfsutils-linux includes the following lines:

# Scrub the second Sunday of every month.
24 0 8-14 * * root [ $(date +\%w) -eq 0 ] && [ -x /usr/lib/zfs-linux/scrub ] && /usr/lib/zfs-linux/scrub

My question is, why the above instead of:

24 0 8-14 * Sun root [ -x /usr/lib/zfs-linux/scrub ] && /usr/lib/zfs-linux/scrub

I suspect both variants are functionally equivalent. I find the second variant is easier to read.

Thank you.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Ubuntu has inherited this file in the package from Debian. Maybe you should better ask there.
https://salsa.debian.org/zfsonlinux-team/zfs/blob/master/debian/zfsutils-linux.cron.d

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