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Hello!

I wanna execute an awk program every hour, the time is not important, i've created with

Code:

crontab -e

Code:

* * * * * /route/program

but it doesn't works

anybody can help me?

Thanks!

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The line you gave will run the script every minute of every hour of every day. Give it some random value (0 <= x <= 59) in the minute field to have it run only once per hour.

If it still doesn't work, check the execute permissions on your script, and your email. Any output by cron will be sent to your user.

/home/jcontreras/Desktop/echo: line 1: file2.conf: No such file or directory

This is the message that it returns in my user's mail, but if i do it like a root it doesn't returns anything in the mail, but still not working

In the script that i wanna execute i have to lines, the first touch a file writing in some words, and the second line executes an awk program, but the awk program not works, but if i execute this awk program in the command line it works fine.

Hi,

Please can you just check if awk is installed on your Unix box.

Cheers,
Shazin

This means that there's something wrong with your script, not the crontab entry. Have you tried running the script itself, instead of each command by it's own? You can get a trace of what is done by putting the line

Code:

set -x

near the beginning of your script.

Besides that, 'echo' is not really the best name for a script, as it's both an executable and a built-in command in most shells. Try to avoid such reserved names, as it can create confusion.

if i execute my awk it works fine

Code:

awk -f lee_conf.awk<file2.conf

but when i do that in my "prog" script, after "echo"

Code:

#!/bin/sh
echo "prueba">>/home/jcontreras/Desktop/prueba.txt

awk -f /home/jcontreras/Desktop/lee_conf.awk</home/jcontreras/Desktop/file2.conf

"prog" is the script that the crontab executes, then it doesn't works

And what happens if you change "file2.conf" to "prueba.txt" in the awk command?