I could run command in terminal but not in crontab (date issue)

Question

I checked many questions like my issue but could not find a solution yet

Following command works without any problem

rm -rf <PATH>/<pattern>*$(date +'%Y%m%d' -d "-2 days")*.csv

I have edited crontab with like following line

39 9  * * * rm -rf <PATH>/<pattern>*$(date +\'\%Y\%m\%d\' -d \"-2 days\")*.csv

But I got following error when crond runs my command

> date: extra operand `days"'
Try `date --help' for more information.

I could not find any solution yet, do you have any idea ?

I have tons of file to delete, rm works better than find (-exec rm) command.

Answer 1

You don't need to escape quotes in crontab. Only % is special in most crontabs.