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Old 07-05-2012
Script not working in cron but working fine manually

Help. My script is working fine when executed manually but the cron seems not to catch up the command when registered.

The script is as follow:
Code:
#!/bin/sh 

for file in file_1.txt file_2.txt file_3.txt
do
    awk '{ print "0" }' $file > tmp.tmp
    mv tmp.tmp $file
done


And the cron job I am making is:
Code:
*/2 * * * * /root/folder/test.sh

Thanks for the help.

Last edited by Franklin52; 07-05-2012 at 08:29 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for data and code samples, thank you
# 2  
Old 07-05-2012
provide the absolute path of file_1.txt... file_2.txt...

Code:
 
for file in file_1.txt file_2.txt file_3.txt

# 3  
Old 07-05-2012
thanks a lot. It works!
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