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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Expect script not executing via cron Post 302977610 by KingT617 on Wednesday 20th of July 2016 12:34:27 PM
Old 07-20-2016
I picked up that line with the TH in the path from another thread in a futile attempt to resolve this. With your suggested changes the script still doesn't run via cron and now it no longer runs on the command line and produces the following output:
Code:
 invalid command name "env"
    while executing
"env PATH "/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin""
    (file "./expect.sh" line 2)

I've looked at a few other forums and tried using a variant of env PATH "/usr/bin......." but end up with the same result of nothing. Damn you cron and your lack of environment
 

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