[Linux-disciples] write to file from shell script

Jamie Forrest jamie at jamieforrest.com
Tue Nov 15 23:46:15 EST 2011


> #!/bin/bash
>
> dumpfile=`date +%F-%H%M%S`_dump.sql
> cd /Users/jforrest/Projects/django-cnsltme/cnsltme/
> gondor sqldump primary > /tmp/$dumpfile
> cd /tmp
> tar -czf $dumpfile.tar.gz $dumpfile
> mv $dumpfile.tar.gz /Users/jforrest/Dropbox/Pirate/db_backup/
> rm $dumpfile

The issue here was that gondor was not in the path that cron was
looking at. Calling the full path with gondor made the script work
from cron.

Jamie


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