Show exactly what you typed, word for word, letter for letter, keystroke for keystroke. Otherwise we are only wild-guessing about what you actually did.
My current wild guess is that you either typed it in as a relative path ( which won't work ) or made a typo.
Hi
I have a shell script which works fine at the command line
and does works in crontab also but does not send the output to
mail as other scripts do by default.
10 1 * * * /export/home/test/report_script
by default should send the output to mail but the script
runs OK and the output... (1 Reply)
dear all ,
does any one now how can i become sure that the crontab that i put was working successfully not by looking for thr result of the sheduled task but from a log for the crontab or something similar
and i need to check that the cron i wrote is correct
00 15 * * 0,1,2,3,6... (2 Replies)
i have a ksh script that creates messages in a temp directory and then sends them out using the sendmail command and i'm trying to set it up to run every night with crontab.
So the basic gist of the script is
#create temp dir and messages
...
#loop through each message and send using sendmail... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I've a shell script which calls a Sybase stored procedure to do some functionality. I want to schedule the running of this script by crontab. I'm using Solaris 5.8. When i executed the following command
crontab -l
i got the output as
crontab: can't open your crontab file
How... (10 Replies)
hi,
I run a .sh file using crontab. I need to know the path of the file . Previously when I run the file alone , i used "pwd" but now when using crontab it gives the temp directory of the file.
Is there any way I can find the absolute path of the file when i execute it ?
Regards,
Ranga (7 Replies)
Dear All
jobs are scheduled in crontab . To view this I use crontab -l . But suddenly today I am not able to see any jobs that is being scheduled in crontab. when I type crontab -l , I am seeing nothing.I am not logging through admin user(i dont have it).But I can schedule jobs through... (3 Replies)
Hi, can someone explain the differences between using the at and crontab commands. When would you use one command over the other?
TIA
Dom (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: domburf69
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pwd
pwd(1) General Commands Manual pwd(1)NAME
pwd - Displays the pathname of the current working directory
SYNOPSIS
pwd
STANDARDS
Interfaces documented on this reference page conform to industry standards as follows:
pwd: XCU5.0
Refer to the standards(5) reference page for more information about industry standards and associated tags.
OPTIONS
None
OPERANDS
None
DESCRIPTION
The pwd command writes to standard output the full pathname of your current working directory. All directories are separated by a /
(slash). The first / represents the root directory and the last directory named is your current working directory.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: Successful completion. An error occurred.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The following environment variables affect the execution of pwd: Provides a default value for the internationalization variables that are
unset or null. If LANG is unset or null, the corresponding value from the default locale is used. If any of the internationalization vari-
ables contain an invalid setting, the utility behaves as if none of the variables had been defined. If set to a non-empty string value,
overrides the values of all the other internationalization variables. Determines the locale for the format and contents of diagnostic mes-
sages written to standard error. Determines the location of message catalogues for the processing of LC_MESSAGES.
SEE ALSO
Commands: cd(1), csh(1), ksh(1), Bourne shell sh(1b), POSIX shell sh(1p)
Functions: stat(2), getcwd(3)
Standards: standards(5)pwd(1)