Hello,
I know little about shell scripting and creating a script, and worked fine in the command line. But not work in the cron. Below you could see the script
This is a topic which very often comes up. Starting something on the command line is not the same environment like when started via cron. Environment variables will not be set like PATH and so on.
You can either use the search function of the forum and/or read this: https://www.unix.com/answers-frequent...n-crontab.html
Please post the exact cron line and state when you expect the cron to run.
Please state which Operating System you have.
Remember that the script will need to be invoked with the full path name of the script (not as ./scriptname).
If the cron is failing for some reason the error messages will be in mail for the cron user (e.g. root). Also check that the cron runs at all by looking at the logfile for your cron (see "man cron" to find the name of the logfile). How did you add the job to the crontab?
I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 server 64 bit.
I changed the location of the script to simplify the test
so far I try following cron lines and syslog show script executed but nothing goes to the processedfiles
49 08 * * * /home/malik/test/Tmoustart
02 09 * * * sh /home/malik/test/Tmoustar
I add . $HOME/.profile to pick-up the environment variables. Hope that's the correct way.
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Now I narrow it down to grep command
I use following simple script
Code:
#!/bin/bash
ls -l /home/malik/test
echo "1 done ###"
ls -l /home/malik/test | grep 2010-01-22
Output from command line
Code:
malik@sysdb:~/test$ ./greptest
total 12
-rwxr-xr-x 1 malik malik 97 2010-01-22 11:04 greptest
-rw-r--r-- 1 malik malik 0 2010-01-22 10:28 processedfiles
-rw-r--r-- 1 malik malik 2501 2010-01-22 10:55 test.log
-rwxr-xr-x 1 malik malik 715 2010-01-22 10:54 Tmoustart
1 done ###
-rwxr-xr-x 1 malik malik 97 2010-01-22 11:04 greptest
-rw-r--r-- 1 malik malik 0 2010-01-22 10:28 processedfiles
-rw-r--r-- 1 malik malik 2501 2010-01-22 10:55 test.log
-rwxr-xr-x 1 malik malik 715 2010-01-22 10:54 Tmoustar
Output from cron
Code:
total 12
-rwxr-xr-x 1 malik malik 715 Jan 22 10:54 Tmoustart
-rwxr-xr-x 1 malik malik 94 Jan 22 11:13 greptest
-rw-r--r-- 1 malik malik 0 Jan 22 10:28 processedfiles
-rw-r--r-- 1 malik malik 2501 Jan 22 10:55 test.log
1 done ###
For some reason grep not working. I tested in three computers with Ubuntu 64 bit and 32 bit.
Any body know any other way I could do this?
Thank you,
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Hello all I mange to fix the problem using find command. But still I do not know why grep failed. I found grep failed with any number. if I use characters work fine.
Basically I used the script to find last 3 days files in a folder and copy to another location.
using find command as below I mange to do the same and also that make my script smaller too
find /var/lct/mou2/processed/ -mtime -2 > /home/trans/mou/processedfiles
The problem I see is that the date format in $TODAY and $YESTERDAY does not match the date format in your "ls" from cron. Maybe you have an alias for "ls" in the user acount which produces the non-standard date format?
In general the match string for grep should be in double quotes.
As you have deduced it is better to use "find" in this circumstance anyway.
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Shell script not working in cron
Shell script not working in cron