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Old 08-09-2010
find cmd works different on cron job ?
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/usr/bin/find  $SEARCH_DIR  -daystart \( \( -name 'KI*' -a -name '*.csv' \) -o  -name '*_xyz_*' \)  -mtime $DAYS_AGO -printf %f -printf "\n" | sort -r > $FILES

The above command gives different results when run on a cron job. When run manually the result is accurate.
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Old 08-09-2010
Define "different results" a bit more clearly. Are $SEARCH_DIR, $DAYS_AGO, and $FILES defined? Is the command called in cron directly, or inside a script called by cron?
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Old 08-09-2010
I meant different for the "Number of files find returns".

Search directory is standard everytime. Days ago is 1 (which is yesterday).

The command is called in a script which is run by cron, but the number of files are written to a file called files.txt.

If the files are more, say 300+ then cron fails to write all the files to files.txt and If I run the script manually the files are all being written. And this behaviour is not consistent. I cant say each time the cron fails, but mostly if there are more files I see a difference in the number of files returned.
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