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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script runs fine, but not in a cron Post 302389268 by sammyk on Saturday 23rd of January 2010 06:33:14 PM
Old 01-23-2010
Script runs fine, but not in a cron
Okay, I have the following script that runs fine from a command line as well as an executable .sh file. It just moves any file/folder with movie* in the name to a folder called _Movies. The issue I'm running into is when it's call from a cron.

Code:
find /mnt/HD_a2/BT/complete -iname "movie.*" -exec mv {} /mnt/HD_a2/BT/complete/_Movies \;

Crontab looks like the following, with my scripts being called move_downloads.sh

Code:
32 2 * * * /usr/sbin/rtc -s
30 2 2 * * /usr/sbin/rtc -c
59 1 * * * /usr/sbin/daylight &
*/10 * * * * /usr/sbin/offl_chk two &
*/60 * * * * /usr/sbin/getdhcp&
* * * * * /ffp/sbin/move_downloads.sh >> /mnt/HD_a2/move_downloads.log 2>&1

I realize it's running every minute, but it's set that way while I debug it. I get the following in the log file, and the movie does not move when the cron job is ran.

Code:
BusyBox v1.00-pre1 (2008.09.02-11:43+0000) multi-call binary

Usage: find [PATH...] [EXPRESSION]

Any ideas? I'm going crazy trying to figure out what could be wrong. Thanks!
 

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mhpath(1)						      General Commands Manual							 mhpath(1)

NAME

       mhpath - print full pathnames of MH messages and folders (only available within the message handling system, mh)

SYNOPSIS

       mhpath [+foldername] [msgs] [-help]

OPTIONS

       Prints a list of the valid options to this command.

DESCRIPTION

       Use  the  mhpath command to display the full pathname of the specified folder. If you do not specify a folder, mhpath displays the pathname
       of the current folder.

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