Job option default value as a bash command?

[Adrian Cardenas]

We have a job definition that is a bash command that takes a date as a required argument. We would like to set a default value for the option to be the current day's date. In bash I would normally run that as $(date +'%m/%d/%Y'), but since options are quoted, our shell command is receiving the string literal "$(date +'%m/%d/%Y')" instead of the current server date. Any suggestions on how to go about getting a default date time?

Thank you

Regards,

Adrian

[Greg Schueler]

Rundeck supports using an option value like "${DATE:format}", and will substitute the date/timestamp when evaluated

the format is from the Java [SimpleDateFormat](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html)

e.g. for your case: ${DATE:MM/dd/yyyy}

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[Hao Dang]

weird thing is that this works if the job was triggered through the web ui.

but if the job is run by the scheduler, the literal ${DATE:MM/dd/yyyy} was passed to my program without having been interpreted as the date.

any ideas?