crontab using shell script to sync files.

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,

I developed one shell script where it will sync the files using perforce,

#!/bin/bash
TERM=linux
export TERM

clear
echo ""
$PATH
echo ""
cd /u/userk/p4/p4_client/TES_DATE
echo ""

echo "Sync p4 "
p4 sync

echo "Executing for second time "
p4 -u userk -p p4net:161 -c userk:p4_client sync

this script executes well when i execute from my directory, i want this script to run every 15 min, and sync the latest files using perforce(p4) so i am using cronjob to achive this, my crontab files goes like this

MAILTO=userk@abensdes.com
*/15 * * * * /u/userk/auto_sync_p4.sh

this cronjob is executed, but files are not synced , and i am getting

p4 command not found.

Please let me know how to execute p4 command from cronjob.

Regards,
asak

2

Perhaps "p4" command is not in your PATH.
use the fully qualified path for p4. like .

/some/path/p4 sync
3

Hi Clx,

i tried by giving complete path getting like this,

/u/userk/p4/p4_client/p4: No such file or directory

and one more thing, i am going into the directory where p4 is present using cd and then i
am executing p4 sync.

echo ""
cd /u/userk/p4/p4_client/TES_DATE
echo ""

echo "Sync p4 "
p4 sync

Regards,
asak

4 
 
cd /u/userk/p4/p4_client/TES_DATE
echo ""

echo "Sync p4 "
p4 sync


 
i tried by giving complete path getting like this,


Code:
/u/userk/p4/p4_client/p4: No such file or directory
5

Hi itkamaraj,

Giving complete path also gives the same error,

/u/userk/p4/p4_client/TES_DATE/ p4: No such file or directory

Regards,
asak

6

still, i see the space in between the DATE/ and p4

 
/u/userk/p4/p4_client/TES_DATE/ p4
7

I tried with space and also without space, p4 is a command so i tried giving with space , still same i am getting, the script runs fine when i execute from my home directory, but when i execute from cronjob, it shows p4 command not found or No such file or directory

8

can you execute the below command and confirm, whether p4 is present.

If it is not there, then check where is your p4 command and use that absolute path

ls -l /u/userk/p4/p4_client/TES_DATE/p4
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9

Hi itkamaraj,

I tried

$ which p4
/usr/software/bin/p4

And gave absolute path as told.
it is working now.

(b4p4: using $P4CLIENT userk:p4_client; $P4PORT p4netapp:16)
File(s) up-to-date.

Thanks ,
asak