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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers crontab environment help Post 302357695 by malky on Wednesday 30th of September 2009 11:49:26 AM
Old 09-30-2009
Thanks for your response,
I added:

Code:
PWD=$( pwd )
export PWD

but i get from cron's report:
startup.sh: syntax error at line 9: `PWD=$' unexpected

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Quote:
Originally Posted by varontron
I'm thinking, in your script, cd to any directory, and the env will set PWD to that dir.
Great Idea!


oh, I tried... then printed env inside scrip that's run by cron... PWD still not set and I'm still getting an empty value. =(

Any more ideas?


Lets make it more simple, im not even going to call my script, I'll just run this:
Code:
* * * * * printf "My path: $PWD lala"

I still get "My path: lala"

* * * * * = (set the time as you wish)

Last edited by malky; 09-30-2009 at 12:55 PM..
 

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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. --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit NOTE: your shell may have its own version of pwd, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's docu- mentation for details about the options it supports. AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering. REPORTING BUGS
Report pwd bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
getcwd(3) The full documentation for pwd is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and pwd programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'pwd invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 7.1 July 2010 PWD(1)
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