You are expecting that the environment for a cron job is the same as when you log in. This is not the case and is a very common mistake, probably including everyone who has ever tried it.
The easiest way to work out what is different is to fire in a cron job that just does:-
Make sure you use cron and not at to schedule this. The at command takes your current environment (including current directory) to run a job once.
You can then run the same commands on the command line and compare the output.
A common way to fill in the blanks is to call an environment script at the start of all your cron jobs. For example:-
The my_cron_env or whatever you call it is the same format as your .profile
I hope that this helps,
Robin
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