RE: Cron and find

[cygwill <will dot wright at tiscali dot co dot uk>]

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?


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. :(
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Dessent [mailto:brian@dessent.net] 
> Sent: 14 November 2006 11:12
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: Cron and find
> 
> will.wright@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
> 
>> 4 10 * * 1-5 find
> /cygdrive/d/Apps_v8p4//Bridge/DataFeed/deploy//quotefeed/logs
>> -type f -name stdout.log\.* -mtime +2 >
> /cygdrive/d/Apps_v8p4/Bridge/DataFeed/deploy/bin/testfind.log
> 
> 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.\*
> 
> or
> 
> -name stdout.log\*
> 
> where the former would match only stdout.log.03Nov2006 and the latter
> would match both that and stdout.log.  However, what you have:
> 
> -name stdout.log\.*
> 
> does not make any sense as the "." is not a glob character and does not
> need to be quoted, leaving the "*" unprotected and vulnerable to shell
> expansion if there happened to be a matching filename in the current
> directory (although that typically results in syntax errors from find.) 
> This could explain why it happens to work from the command line but not
> in cron, but it's kind of a long shot.  I don't see any other common
> cron problems (D is not a network drive and your mounts are
> system-mode.)  In any case I would fix the quoting, regardless of other
> issues.
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
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