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Hi, this is my first shell script. Anyway i am trying to ftp files from one machine to another. The name of the script is ifsftp_orabkp. The code is as follows:

HOST="122.122.122.22"
USER="ftp_ftp"
PASSWD="ftp.222222"
Y1=`(perl -e '@y=localtime(time());printf "%04d%02d%02d",$y[5]+1900,$y[4]+1,$y[3];')`
Y2=`(perl -e '@y=localtime(time()-86400);printf "%04d%02d%02d",$y[5]+1900,$y[4]+1,$y[3];')`
D1=$(printf "$Y1" | cut -c 3-8)
D2=$(printf "$Y2" | cut -c 3-8)
cd /exports
ftp -nv $HOST << END_SCRIPT > /home/oracle/oracle_logs/ftpout_ora.txt
quote USER $USER
quote PASS $PASSWD
prompt
cd /erdbvol1/IFS_BKPS/ora_bkp
mput *$D1*
mput *$D2*
END_SCRIPT

When I try to run it using the following it works without any problems:
./ifsftp_orabkp

However when I use crontab :
45 10 * * * /home/oracle/oracle_scripts/ifsftp_orabkp >> /home/oracle/oracle_logs/ftpora.log 2>&1

ftpora.log shows the following errors:
$ cat ftpora.log
sh: /home/oracle_scripts/ifsftp_orabkp: not found
/home/oracle/oracle_scripts/ifsftp_orabkp: syntax error at line 6: `D1=$' unexpected
/home/oracle/oracle_scripts/ifsftp_orabkp: syntax error at line 6: `D1=$' unexpected
/home/oracle/oracle_scripts/ifsftp_orabkp: syntax error at line 1: `$' unexpected
/home/oracle/oracle_scripts/ifsftp_orabkp: syntax error at line 6: `D1=$' unexpected

Please help!

This script is relying on the environment being set. However this is not the case if it is run from crontab. In this case probably only the PATH variable will need to be set somewhere at the beginning. It should contain the paths to all the external commands that are bing called. I do not know where your perl binary is located. Possibly this is enough:

Code:

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin

Hi, thanks for responding, I tried that but it didnt work. I also modified the script a bit to simplify:

HOST="133.133.133.33"
USER="ttt123"
PASSWD="tt22222"
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
Y1="20091114"
D1=$(printf "$Y1" | cut -c 3-8)
cd /exports
ftp -nv $HOST << END_SCRIPT > /home/oracle/oracle_logs/ftpout_ora.txt
quote USER $USER
quote PASS $PASSWD
prompt
cd /erdbvol1/IFS_BKPS/ora_bkp
mput *$D1*
END_SCRIPT

./ifsftp_orabkp is working, however from crontab there is still the error:

syntax error at line 7: `D1=$' unexpected

Is the syntax of the D1 variable correctly

Better put a shebang (#!) with the shell name and its full path on your first line too. It may be that the default shell is not the same as the shell this script needs to be run in. It could be that it then uses a very classic Bourne shell that does not know the $(...) construct.

Hi, on the first line I added:
#!/bin/ksh

but im still getting :
syntax error at line 7: `D1=$' unexpected..

Echo your env in your script and have it run from cron.

So put this at the beginning of your script

env > /tmp/env

Have that run from cron, and then post the results. This is a simple way to trouble shoot enviornment variable problems. You can compare to how its running from cron, from when you're executing it yourself.

The cron does NOT automatically source your profile. You have to source it in your script, which is a good practice anyway.

#!/usr/bin/ksh


#
# Note this is (dot)space(tilde)/.profile
#
. ~/.profile (or whichever profile is appropriate for your default shell)

This should solve your problem.

Hope it helps. Good luck.