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Old 11-25-2008
Script is not working when put in crontab
Hi there, this is part of my script:

/usr/bin/cd /u01/oradata
/usr/bin/cp `/bin/ls -1 . |grep -v "^DIMStemp01.dbf$" | grep -v "^DIMSts01.dbf$"|grep -v "^DIMStects01.dbf$"` /backup

It's working fine when I manually run on telnet session.

/bin/ls -1 . -- to list all the files inside /u01/oradata

However, when i schedule the job in crontab, it is listing all the files in / instead of /u01/oradata.

Any1 here knows how to fix this? Thanks in advance!
# 2  
Old 11-25-2008
don't use /usr/bin/cd use the shell builtin cd.
# 3  
Old 11-26-2008
try to use absolute path in your scripts and also define shebang in your script
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