I tried to set up a task in systemd but I'm not able to escape the characters used in the parameter "--timestring". For example: docker run user/curator --host x.x.x.x --port 9200 --dry-run delete indices --older-than 5 --time-unit days --timestring %Y.%m.%d If I execute the previous command on th…

Curator: how to escape characters of "--timestring" in systemd?

MichaelRuhwedel (Michael Ruhwedel) July 13, 2015, 1:17pm 2

I stumbled over the same issue today on CoreOs.
I found that a single percent is escaped as '%%'.
Things will work if you write:

--timestring '%%Y.%%m.%%d'

Cheers,
Michael

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