Re^2: running shell script in cron

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Re^3: running shell script in cron by rovf (Priest) on Mar 25, 2009 at 08:33 UTC
I was thinking that using & inside backquotes wouldn't work (and it doesn't make much sense since the caller would have to wait for the completion anyway). I tried it on Cygwin Perl, and at least it works here (using bash for shelling out). I don't know whether this is supposed to work in general. Another strange thing in your code is that you have cd $sc `...` [download] So provided your backquoted string substitutes to blablabla, you would have something like `cd $sc blablabla` [download] What is this supposed to do? -- Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: running shell script in cron
by rovf (Priest) on Mar 25, 2009 at 08:33 UTC

I was thinking that using & inside backquotes wouldn't work (and it doesn't make much sense since the caller would have to wait for the completion anyway). I tried it on Cygwin Perl, and at least it works here (using bash for shelling out). I don't know whether this is supposed to work in general.

cd $sc `...`
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cd $sc blablabla
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Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>

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