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Users home path in a bash script
I'm writing a bash-script that will be run as a cron job everyday. Very basic, I was wanting to change the wallpaper daily. I have mint-14 with mate.
The thing I'm getting caught up on right now ...
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Interactive shell with environment identical to cron
I am aware of a lot of pitfalls in the magic world of crontabs, but sometimes it would help troubleshooting a lot when you have some smart way to enter an interactive (bash) shell with exact identical ...
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crontab sets up user variable, redirect output, and detect connetcted network
I have three problem, all of them are about crontab.
Can I access $HOME variable in crontab ? for example, use $HOME like this:
PATH=$HOME/bin:$HOME/scripts:$PATH ? or * * * * * echo "test" > ...
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How can I run a cron command with existing environmental variables?
How can I run a cron command with existing environmental variables?
If I am at a shell prompt I can type echo $ORACLE_HOME and get a path. This is one of my environmental variables that gets set in ...
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Run script in a non interactive shell?
I have a cron job that is running a script. When I run the script via an interactive shell (ssh'ed to bash) it works fine. When the script runs by itself via cron it fails.
My guess is that it is ...
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How to run a cronjob in my regular environment?
Both the shell and environment variables that cronjobs are run in is completely different from the ones presented to me in gnome-terminal. How can I run a cronjob under the same circumstances as if I ...
