I have a script that runs perfectly from cmd, but in the cron it gives a strange ':::::::::::::::' output instead of evaluating the part inside the quotes.
this is the script:
but the output when its run from cron is:
the correct output from cmd is:
any ideas from anyone? its part of a much bigger script and i will have to make the changes like 100 times to fix the whole script. Does anyone know a magical line i can add to fix it instead?
Thanks.
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