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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting cron job problem, passing a parm Post 302110376 by [MA]Flying_Meat on Monday 12th of March 2007 03:33:58 PM
Old 03-12-2007
I'm guessing that the command line in cron is reading all your redirection (to /dev/null) as parameters.

Either don't test for the number of passed parameters (get rid of the $# test), check that the number of passed parameters is greater than 0, or just check that $1 is a valid parameter.

Oh, and set the $1 variable early, not late, in case the $1 value is changed before you use it later on in your script.

That's my guess...

Actually, I'm not seeing where you set the variable to the contents of $1. Am I missing something?

Last edited by [MA]Flying_Meat; 03-12-2007 at 04:40 PM..
 

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