30 11 31 12 * /etc/wall%Happy New Year!%Let's make next year great!
runs the wall command at 11:30 a.m. on December
31, using the text:
Happy New Year!
Let's make next year great!
as standard input. [If you need a literal percent sign in your entry,
for a command like date +%a, escape the percent
sign with a backslash: \%.
-- JP]