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Subject: RE: cron script can awk wget file but not head/cat it
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 19:13:12 -0600
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From: "Pagano, Tom - Portland, OR" <tom DOT pagano AT por DOT usda DOT gov>
To: <brian AT dessent DOT net>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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This was exactly the problem. I'm sharing someone else's computer, so I didn't even realize those files were there (i.e. C:/bin/ is chock full of grep.exe, head.exe, sed.exe...). At the start of my script I defined my path and it worked no problem. Crisis averted, thank you! Tom

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>From your cygcheck, you have some set of unix-like utilities in c:\bin. 
Check the setting of the PATH from within the cron job, as I would be
willing to bet that your Cygwin bin directory is not in the path and
that you're actually calling these non-Cygwin versions of those commands
that have no idea what /home/tompagano is.  The default install of
Cygwin only modifies the PATH through the cygwin.bat file, not via the
system-wide setting of PATH in the registry, so by default Cygwin is
only in your path when you click on cygwin.bat to launch a bash prompt.

Brian