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Howdie everyone...

I have a shell script RemoveFiles.sh
Inside this file, it only has two commands as below:
rm -f ../../reportToday/temp/*
rm -f ../../report/*

My problem is that when i execute this script, nothing happened. Files remained unremoved. I don't see any error message as it showed [Done]
But in the same directory that I executed the SCRIPT, I tried to execute the COMMANDs by themselves. They work!!! All files are removed accordingly.

Hopefully someone can help with this problem.

Many thanks in advance
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Howdie everyone...

I have a shell script RemoveFiles.sh
Inside this file, it only has two commands as below:
rm -f ../../reportToday/temp/*
rm -f ../../report/*

My problem is that when i execute this script, nothing happened. Files remained unremoved. I don't see any error message as it showed [Done]
But in the same directory that I executed the SCRIPT, I tried to execute the COMMANDs by themselves. They work!!! All files are removed accordingly.

Hopefully someone can help with this problem.

Many thanks in advance
In which directory did you execute this script ? The problem could be the relative path construct ../..
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Thanks vino. I replaced the relative path with absolute path and it works!!!
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