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I have a question on issuing the unalias in my .profile. I want to turn off color in both my ls command and using vi to edit, and when I set these 2 statements in my .profile it accomplishes that task.

unalias ls
unalias vi

However, a few of my crontab jobs require me to fire off the job with my .profile in the crontab entry. And when that happens I am getting an email kicked back saying:

~/.profile: line 41: unalias: vi: not found
~/.profile: line 42: unalias: ls: not found

If I just execute the . ./.profile I get no errors. So why am I getting the email kickback and what is the proper way to set it? Thanks.

I'm guessing cron is using a different shell than you login with; when you login, it understands unalias, when cron fires off, it does not.

What shell are you using? Perhaps you can use a file more specific than ~/.profile so cron doesn't load it too.

Is the cronjob executed as you or as root?

not root, under my account:

Code:

15 03,04 * * * . $HOME/.profile; $HOME/bin/RunReports.pl

Moderator's Comments:

Code tags for code, please.

What shell are you using?

using bash

Put your unaliases in ~/.bash_profile instead, which is only read for login shells.