Script runs manually but not correctly from crontab

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi all

I have this inside a shell script (bash):

cd DIRECTORY
find . -maxdepth 1 | sed 's#./##' | /usr/bin/xargs -I '{}' chown -Rv '{}' /DIRECTORY/'{}'

All the directories in this location are named after usernames, so it simply sets the owner to that of the username of the folder.

It works if I run the script manually, but if it is inside a crontab it does not work.

Any ideas?

Many thanks

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Have you given the complete path of script instead of just script name in the crontab..? Something like..

0 */2 * * *  /full/path/to/test.sh
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Thanks for the reply.

Here it is:

*/1		*	*	*	*	root	/usr/local/bin/script

It does run fine because when I redirect the output to a text file like:

find . -maxdepth 1 | sed 's#./##' | /usr/bin/xargs -I '{}' echo chown -Rv '{}' /DIRECTORY/'{}' > /test.txt

(Note the echo), it populates the text file with all the correct commands.

4

Don't you miss a dollar sign ?

cd $DIRECTORY

and did you previously set this variable into your script ?

5

Apologies I did not paste my code very clearly. That is not a variable, but just a path.

I just found the problem - I did not specify the full paths for all the commands in my script.

Here is the entire working script:

cd /directory
/usr/bin/find . -maxdepth 1 | /usr/bin/sed 's#./##' | /usr/bin/xargs -I '{}' /usr/sbin/chown -Rv '{}' /directory/'{}'
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