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Re: Cron and find
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Ugh - top-posting reformatted: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brian Dessent [mailto:brian AT dessent DOT net]
^^^^ ^^^^^
Double-ugh - raw email munged: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR
>>
>> The need for quoting the argument to -name is to keep the shell from
>> expanding globs (* and ?), so that they can be evalulated instead by
>> find. This can be done either with quotes or backslashes, so I would
>> expect to see
>>
>> -name stdout.log.\*
>>
>
> Will Wright-2 wrote:
>> Thanks for the tips Brian. I have updated my script accordingly but (as
>> you
>> guessed) this has made no difference when run via cron. :(
>>
According to cygwill on 11/17/2006 8:02 AM:
> ok - I've worked this out. The find command works if I explicitly use
> /usr/bin/find
>
> no idea why this is an issue when cron runs as the same user I'm logged in
> as?
>
cron runs with a different environment than your default login
environment. Are you sure what PATH is being set to from cron's perspective?
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Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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