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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to retrieve the value of variable in shell script which is called by crontab Post 302442097 by clx on Tuesday 3rd of August 2010 09:05:08 AM
Old 08-03-2010
Unable to understand the requirement completely, but as far as the config file parameter,
you have to source to file within "sample.sh"

you sample code is also incomplete;
after aligning the code, I found this

Code:
#!/bin/sh
path=`echo $LINE | cut -d" " -f1` 
duration=`echo $LINE | cut -d" " -f2`
filename=`echo $LINE | cut -d" " -f3`
path="$path"
path=`eval echo $path`

if [ "$filename" != "" ] ; then
	`find $path/$filename -type f -mtime $duration >> $tmpfile;`

which is incomplete.

In addition, reassigning path to the same value doesn't make any sense.
there is no need to run the find command in another shell.
 

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