The script runs from command line but crontab fails

Question

I\'m still learning Bash and I\'m having a problem with my script. I want to filter some calls with this script that is analyzing a call log, every 2 minutes as cronjob. The pro

Answer 1

It seems that you are assuming a certain starting directory, and creating a tmp directory there. But when you run it as a cron job, it starts in a different place. So a CD command in your bash startup script might mess you up. You can easily test by using the full path names when you cd or rm or whatever.

For example,

if [ -e "tmp/$AYER.lnum" ]; then
    rm /home/username/tmp/${AYER}.*
fi

# Si existe el archivo con el numero de laultima linea se procesa

if [ -e "/home/username/tmp/$FECHA.lnum" ]; then

    # Se lee el numero de la linea y se extrae un archivo con las lineas apartir
    # de la ultima busqueda que se hizo, posteriormente se les hace un grep

    while read line
    do
            tail -n +$line $FILE > "/home/username/tmp/$FECHA.hal"
    done < "/home/username/tmp/$FECHA.lnum"
    cd /home/username/tmp

    grep -n " 00[0|2-9][0-9]\{4,\}" "/home/username/tmp/$FECHA.hal" > "/home/username/tmp/${FECHA}.new"

and so on.