unable to run bash script from bash script

Question

I've created a script that has to be executed on boot and has to run another script (which sets some variables) before executing other commands.

After writing the script, I've successfully executed it in the console, but if the script is added to crontab, the other script inside this one is not executed.

The script (main-script.sh) that has been added to crontab is the following:

#!/bin/bash
source /home/pi/test-script.sh
python mycustompythonscript.py

and the test-script.sh is the following (I replaced the actual script with this one for testing):

#!/bin/bash
echo "greetings from test script" > test.txt

So when i run main-script.sh from console, test-script.sh is executed (the file is created) and the python script is executed. Upon rebooting the RPi, however, the python script is executed, but the test-script.sh is not executed (test.txt file is not created).

Does anyone know what could be the possible reason that test-script.sh is not executed in case the main-script.sh is executed by cron?

Answer 1

You need to specify an absolute path for test.txt. It won't put it where you expect.

do sudo find / -iname "test.txt" to find it.

(The python script should also have a full path name.)