Thanks funsen,

I am confused as to how it fits together.

I can see running the cron job and writing standard error to a temp file on the cron job.

2> /tmp/file

What I don't understand when not to fire the awk script if there is an error.


var=$(wc -l /tmp/file)
if [ $var -gt 0 ] then cat /tmp/file | mail -s "copy job error" your@e.mail; rm
/tmp/file; fi


Thanks again for replying