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Requirement: I have shell script for updating security patches on Linux servers which has to run on maintenance timings/windows.

What we have tried as suggested here:

We are trying to edit /etc/crontab file as below:

30 13 16 * * root [[ $(date "+%Y") == 2020 ]] && /path/to/shellscript

Issues: We are not able to execute above cron job:

o/p in logs:

CROND[24576]: (root) CMD ([[ $(date "+)

I am sure I am missing something in syntax of the cronjob but not sure what is that.

Please help me in resolving the issue.

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