AWK (gawk,nawk) scripts from CRONTAB

[BU]

I have some awk scripts that work correctly when I execute it. But doesn't work from crontab...somebody know why??<br>Thanks

 

[mtdewco]

The cron may be running it under a different shell.&nbsp;&nbsp;You could try forcing it to use a specific shell by putting in the first line &quot;#!/usr/bin/XXX&quot; where XXX is either ksh or csh or whatever shell you are using.&nbsp;&nbsp;Also, in the cron at the end of the line, redirect the output and see what it has to say if anything, i.e. &quot;&gt;/tmp/cron.out 2&gt;&1&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp;Lastly, check /var/cron/log to see if there is anything there.&nbsp;&nbsp;Good Luck.