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Hello all,

This is the first script I have tried to write and is intended to go in my crontab to be run every sunday night. Basically it takes data from one partition that is over 31 day old and moves it to another partition. Before which it deletes anything over a 67 days old in the destination partition in order to free up space for the incoming data. Every command works in the terminal.

here is the script



When I run the scripts it returns with an error "command not found". Any ideas?

did you write this script under *n?x , or w$ ?

Assuming it's in Linux, did you make the script executable and call it correctly? i.e.

- thobbs

Thanks for the reply.

I am using Linux and I did set it to be executable and call it correctly. I suppose I should of also noted that the script gets far enough to echo the "scripted started" string before stopping. This leads me to believe that it is the first find command that is the problem but the command runs just fine in a terminal on its own so I don't understand why it would return an error in the script.

Here is exactly what is happening.

Hmm...

As root, run:

and see if it cannot find it. If it does not, do the same as your normal user and note the location. Then, as root,

and make sure that the list of directories includes the one where find is. If it does not include that directory, add it to PATH in the script:


If that doesn't work, well... who knows.

- thobbs

Beside the fact that cron starts tasks with a well-defined PATH (see crontab.5), his pasted terminal output indicate a CRLF issue or similar, if I'm not mistaken.