[Linux-disciples] write to file from shell script

[Stephen R Laniel]

GNU v. BSD leads to some oddities, but this looks like straight bash or straight POSIX. 

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On Nov 15, 2011, at 10:56 PM, Adam Rosi-Kessel <adam at rosi-kessel.org> wrote:

> On 11/15/2011 10:42 PM, Jamie Forrest wrote:
>> Okay here's another oddity:
>> 
>> The script works fine when I run it from the cmd line. But when I call
>> it from crontab, the file it creates is empty. Here's the script,
>> followed by the crontab.
>> 
>> #!/bin/bash
>> 
>> dumpfile=`date +%F`_dump.sql
>> gondor sqldump primary>  $dumpfile
>> tar -czf $dumpfile.tar.gz $dumpfile
>> mv $dumpfile.tar.gz /Users/jforrest/Dropbox/Pirate/db_backup/
>> rm $dumpfile
>> 
>> #############
>> 
>> * * * * * /Users/jforrest/Projects/django-cnsltme/cnsltme/backup/fetch_db_dump.sh
>> 
>> (Don't worry, I won't run this every minute once I confirm it's working...)
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> Add a cd /path/to/somewhere at the beginning.
> 
> Also, this looks like OS X. I cannot confirm that anything should ever 
> work on OS X.
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