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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ugh - top-posting reformatted: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Brian Dessent [mailto:brian AT dessent DOT net] ^^^^ ^^^^^ Double-ugh - raw email munged: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR >> >> The need for quoting the argument to -name is to keep the shell from >> expanding globs (* and ?), so that they can be evalulated instead by >> find. This can be done either with quotes or backslashes, so I would >> expect to see >> >> -name stdout.log.\* >> > > Will Wright-2 wrote: >> Thanks for the tips Brian. I have updated my script accordingly but (as >> you >> guessed) this has made no difference when run via cron. :( >> According to cygwill on 11/17/2006 8:02 AM: > ok - I've worked this out. The find command works if I explicitly use > /usr/bin/find > > no idea why this is an issue when cron runs as the same user I'm logged in > as? > cron runs with a different environment than your default login environment. Are you sure what PATH is being set to from cron's perspective? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake ebb9 AT byu DOT net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFXdFM84KuGfSFAYARAsAaAKC1tdTAi3BcqHhYFiN5yXxizUg0YQCghDtZ 9hBSwne6/waFazjm1nzRvWg= =gzZp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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