On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Trever L. Adams <trever(a)middleearth.sapphiresunday.org <mailto:trever@middleearth.sapphiresunday.org>> wrote: I am needing a bit of help. I am converting some of my old crontab entries to xxx.timer and xxx.service systemd files. I have the following (the system is a backup server that can be woken by magic packets or some amount of time before the backups run): ExecStart=/usr/sbin/rtcwake -m mem -t $(/usr/bin/date +\%s -d 'today 23:50') > /dev/null It yeilds: Invalid escape sequences in line, correcting: "/usr/sbin/rtcwake -m mem -t $(/usr/bin/date +\%s -d 'today 23:50') > /dev/null" Is there a way to correct this easily, or am I going to have to turn that line into a separate shell script? SystemD executes the binaries directly without a shell so you can't use shell variables and such. You could write a script or I think prepending /usr/bin/bash on the front may work. You may need to put the commands in quotes. Google should find you an example. Thanks, Richard _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)lists.fedoraproject.org