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Old 12-01-2011
Question crontab script
Hi guys
Can someone help me with a crontab script please?
I have to sort the files from /bin and put the first 3 of then (with size and path) in /home/user/bin_size
i write the command:
Code:
find /bin/ | xargs  ls -lS | awk 'FNR<4{print($5, $9)}' > /home/user/bin_size

which is working but when I put this in crontab nothing happened.I want to make this script working for all users
Can someone help me with this please? I don't know much about scripting.Smilie


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Last edited by zaxxon; 12-01-2011 at 11:08 AM.. Reason: code tags
# 2  
Old 12-01-2011
What do you actually have in crontab?
# 3  
Old 12-01-2011
i have
Code:
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

# m h dom mon dow user  command
17 *    * * *   root    cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly
25 6    * * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )
47 6    * * 7   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly )
52 6    1 * *   root    test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly )

# 4  
Old 12-01-2011
Which part is actually running your script?

Also, duplicate threads are A Bad Thing.
# 5  
Old 12-01-2011
Well no wonder it's not running, it's not in there...
# 6  
Old 12-01-2011
after these line i put
Code:
 00 2 * * 1 find /bin/ -type f | xargs ls -lS | awk 'FNR<4 {print ($5, $9)}' > /home/user/bin_size

# 7  
Old 12-01-2011
You forgot the username you want to run it under.

Code:
00 2 * * 1 username ...

 
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