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Date:	Fri, 09 Sep 2005 20:28:14 -0400
To:	"Pagano, Tom - Portland, OR" <tom DOT pagano AT por DOT usda DOT gov>,
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From:	Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	RE: cron script can awk wget file but not head/cat it
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At 06:11 PM 9/9/2005, you wrote:

>Thank you for the very prompt response.
>
>If I assume that it's the System that's running the script via the cron,
>isn't System the owner of the file that results from wget? Or do wgetted
>files belong to someone else? And do Awk and Cat require different
>permission levels (presumably awk is more lax than cat because even
>though they were doing the same thing, cat couldn't see the file
>contents whereas awk could). Besides, from my ls in my previous mail, it
>appears to me that user-group-other all have read permissions to all the
>files so it shouldn't even matter?
>
>Do you have any recommendations on how I can change my script or some
>setting to fix the problem? I could change all my cat and head
>statements to awk statements, but that seems more like treating the
>symptom rather than the disease. 


I think it's worthwhile to consider Brian's comments before making any 
changes to your scripts...



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