awk and crontab

[jdfab5]

I have an awk program with executable permissions. In this program exists another awk command line like this.

system("awk -f program2 file&quot

When I run the executable this second program2 runs just fine. However, when I enter the executable into crontab to schedule this program to run only the executable runs, not program2. Is there something with crontab that does not allow the awk executable to give a second awk command?

 

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jdfab5:

You probably have a PATH issue. More than likely cron can't find program2 or the command-line agrument.

You're better off giveing the whole path to your objects - something like this:

system("awk -f /usr/whereever/bin/program2 /tmp/file&quot

Hope this solves your problem.

Regards,


Ed
Schaefer