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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers crontab environment help Post 302357682 by malky on Wednesday 30th of September 2009 11:13:53 AM
Old 09-30-2009
crontab environment help
Hi, I've read many many threads and I'm still having problems (yes i read https://www.unix.com/answers-frequent...n-crontab.html and it's suggested posts too).

My problem is with the $PWD, yes, that's the only causing problems so i have exported the PATH, I've checked it's exported, everything else runs but $PWD returns a null value so that part of the script can't run!
Code:
#!/bin/sh
printf "My path $PWD lalalala"

This is all the scrip does (it's a test from a much larger code that's failing in the PWD).
When I run on command runs fine, using cron it just prints "My path: lalalala"

I added: ". $HOME/local.profile" (without quotes) to the scrip that call this, and I print the env to make sure the PATH for my environment is the same as that of cron, and it is:

PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/ucb:/etc:.

I even changed the SHELL to bash in case it made any difference, it didnt.

Please someone give me more ideas why $PWD is not recognize in the script through cron!

Maybe it has to do with env printing a value for PWD and OLDPWD but cron's doesn't? How would I set PWD in cron's environment? I tried this in my profile:
PWD=$PWD
export PWD

when environment ran it gave a null PWD, same as in the scripts so.... this didn't work. =(
Last edited by malky; 09-30-2009 at 12:25 PM..
 

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pwd

PWD(1)                                                             User Commands                                                            PWD(1)

NAME

       pwd - print name of current/working directory

SYNOPSIS

       pwd [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

       Print the full filename of the current working directory.

       -L, --logical
              use PWD from environment, even if it contains symlinks

       -P, --physical
              avoid all symlinks

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
              output version information and exit

       If no option is specified, -P is assumed.

       NOTE:  your shell may have its own version of pwd, which usually supersedes the version described here.  Please refer to your shell's docu-
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AUTHOR

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COPYRIGHT

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SEE ALSO

       getcwd(3)

       Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/pwd>
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