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Check script ownership - compare with crontab owner.

Also check what actually happens when called from cron by adding a log location:
eg:
00 20 12 * * /usr/test/scr1.sh > /tmp/script.out 2>&1
...

Have you thought about:

grep -v -w NONE 12345.dst |sort -u

I am not sure that you understand the grep command because it seems as though you are trying to format data which is in a fixed order, rather than search for specific patterns of text - which is the...

NORM,

. file
is known as sourcing a file.

It will pull any env settings, or variables set within the file into the current shell.

[ Normal behaviour is for a child process to inherit from a...

$? is the return code form a previous command or function
in unix, 0 is the standard return code for a successful completion

if [$? -ne 0]
The whole line means

'if the previous return code...

Try stripping off the -exec part of the statement to see what the output is before we manipulate it.
execute
find /home -mtime +7 -type f

Denys,

You can simplify this in a couple of ways.

1) Use the type switch for 'find' command - to limit your results to files - not dirs or anything else
-type f

2) Use an exec at the end...

echo "Whatever you want, including variables $VAR1 , $VAR2" >> your_file

Fred,

Look at the man page for the 'umask' command.

Careful - the umask command works to REMOVE permissions from the user's default, rather than add them.

More generally, this will acheive...

burakkilic,

I normally use awk for this kind of problem - it works effectively

awk '{tot+=$1} END{print tot}' numbers.txt

Alternatively, change your script as shown:

#!/bin/sh
sum=0
for...

Bags,

Try using double quotes " instead of single quotes ' in your sed statement.

This allows you to still pass variables as you require.