Ftp bash script appends to file using cron instead of coping new file


 
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Old 07-10-2015
ah! that's makes so much sense. so when the cron job runs, it doesn't delete anything because the file isn't in the directory that the cron job is running in. and then it pulls the last file that is sitting in /var/www/html/tools/report-script/ because it was never deleted and the new file was never created in that directory. Thank you!

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Just to follow up, I did verify that this was this issue. I found the new csv files created in the home folder where the cron job runs...
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