Dear Monks - a little help here would be highly valued..

OS NAME: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 RHEL5

Perl version: v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi

Module Version: Archive::Extract v?

Situation: A bash script 'my_bash.txt' invokes my_perl.pl - both scripts enclosed.

TWO Problems:

1. If I don't manually invoke 'my_bash.txt' from the same dir that it resides in - for example /usr/my_dir/my_bash.txt -

the Archive::Extract module in /usr/my_dir/my_perl.pl extracts the output to the root folder '/' and not the correct working directory /usr/my_dir/.

2. If I invoke /usr/my_dir/my_bash.txt via root crontab - the Archive::Extract module will not work.

Please could someone help as I have been at this maddening process for days..

BASH SCRIPT BELOW (this invokes my_perl.pl) 


#!/bin/sh

#call perl script to download MODIS greening each decad 
/usr/bin/perl /work/locust1/swarmsdata/RasterData/greening/modis_green
+ing.pl

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PERL SCRIPT BELOW (is called by bash script above)


#!/usr/bin/perl

use Archive::Extract;
$Archive::Extract::PREFER_BIN=1;

#if $inputZip exists unzip, store file correctly and remove date from 
+dekadalGet.txt    
if (-e $inputZip)
{ 

#unzip file
print $timeStamp.' -New zip file successfully downloaded, unzipping fi
+le: '."\n"."\n"; 

# create an archive object
my $archive = Archive::Extract->new(archive => $inputZip);

#extract the contents to the current working directory
$archive->extract() or die "Can't extract: " . $archive->error;
print $timeStamp.' -New zip file = '.$inputZip.' for '.$j.' successful
+ly unzipped -> deleting file.'."\n"."\n";

#delete the zip file
unlink($inputZip) or die "Zip file cannot be deleted.";  
unless (-e $inputZip)
{
 print $timeStamp.' -New zip file successfully deleted: '."\n"."\n";
}

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In reply to Perl Module Not Working In Crontab by dailyoliver

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