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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting issue invoking shell script using cron, even with proper file permission Post 302367356 by methyl on Monday 2nd of November 2009 10:05:37 AM
Old 11-02-2009
The backticks are not required in this context and cause the script to be unpredicatable whether run from the command line or from cron. Also the "echo" is probably not required if you want to get the current date into file ech.txt.

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
date > ech.txt

From your later post.
Quote:
21 11 30 * * /pkgs/roots/scripts/Myscript.ksh 2>&1 > /pkgs/roots/scripts/tempfile.txt
The script does not output anything which is why tempfile.txt is empty. Any syntax errors etc. will be in unix mail for the user issuing the cron.

The cron will of course only execute when it is 11:21 on the 30th of the month.

Last edited by methyl; 11-02-2009 at 11:09 AM.. Reason: Typo. Afterthought,
 

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SHUNIT2(1)																SHUNIT2(1)

NAME
shunit2 - A unit test framework for shell scripts SYNOPSIS
shunit2 unitfile DESCRIPTION
shUnit2 is a xUnit unit test framework for Bourne based shell scripts, and it is designed to work in a similar manner to JUnit, PyUnit, etc.. If you have ever had the desire to write a unit test for a shell script, shUnit2 can do the job. You can either run shunit2 directly from the commandline and specify the unit file or directly source the shunit2 executable. If you directly execute shunit2 and don't specify a unitfile shunit2 assumes a empty testfile and will return without an error message. EXAMPLE
Simple script to test if 1 equals 1 #! /bin/sh testEquality() { assertEquals 1 1 } # load shunit2 . shunit2 Execute shUnit2 unit tests directly from the commandline shunit2 /path/to/unit/file OPTIONS
shunit2 does not support any commandline options at all. You can either source shunit2 to execute your unit tests or directly run shunit2 as a commandline script. SEE ALSO
For more information see http://code.google.com/p/shunit2/ or have a look at the installed documentation in /usr/share/doc/shunit2/ AUTHOR
shunit2 was written by Kate Ward <kate.ward@forestent.com>. This manpage was written by Ulrich Dangel <mru@spamt.net>. 2.1.6 03/25/2012 SHUNIT2(1)
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