Thread: Bash script behaving differently in crontab vs manually run

greetings.

have script purges files folder , record (log file) of files purged.

wrote following snippet , works when executing command line:

code:

logfile="/path/to/logfiles/purge-folder.log" echo "`date +%y-%m-%d_%h:%m:%s` - script started." >> ${logfile} file in "/path/to/folder/*.txt"   echo " - info: deleting ${file}" >> ${logfile}   rm ${file} done echo "`date +%y-%m-%d_%h:%m:%s` - script completed." >> ${logfile}

when run command line, log file looks (shows each file deleted individually):

code:

2013-03-01_10:43:35 - script started.  - info: deleting /path/to/folder/20130227.txt  - info: deleting /path/to/folder/20130228.txt  - info: deleting /path/to/folder/20130301.txt 2013-03-01_10:43:35 - script completed.

when run crontab, log file looks (no matter how many files deleted):

code:

2013-03-02_10:00:01 - script started.  - info: deleting /path/to/folder/*.txt 2013-03-02_10:00:01 - script completed.

this how root crontab looks:

code:

shell=/bin/sh path=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin 0 10 * * * /path/to/scripts/purge-folder.sh > /dev/null 2>&1

any idea on how script behave in crontab @ command-line?

thanks,
lhammonds

remove excessive quoting

code:

logfile="/path/to/logfiles/purge-folder.log" echo "`date +%y-%m-%d_%h:%m:%s` - script started." >> ${logfile} file in /path/to/folder/*.txt # excessive double quotes removed line   echo " - info: deleting ${file}" >> ${logfile}   rm ${file} done echo "`date +%y-%m-%d_%h:%m:%s` - script completed." >> ${logfile}

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