Re^3: Twig in a crontab?

Just FYI, this is what made it work. I ran a shell script from the cron. It looks like this:

#!/bin/sh
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/sfw/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
chdir $HOME/bin
./test.pl
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Maybe if I put the export command in the crontab line it would have worked, but it gets real messy when you jam too much stuff in the crontab file.

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Re^4: Twig in a crontab? by Fletch (Bishop) on Jan 31, 2008 at 13:52 UTC
Bourne-ish shell syntax lets you set an environment variable for a single command by prefixing the command with `VAR=value`, so this command line would probably work if you wanted to do it in-place in the crontab: `sh -c 'cd $HOME/bin ; LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/sfw/lib ./test.pl'` [download] The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.	[reply] [d/l]