-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 You have two choices. The first and easiest is to set the path in your script so that you don't have to type in fully qualified commands the hole time. You can do that by placing this line near the top of the script (note, this is a commonly used path, and you may need to add and/or remove directories from it): path=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin The other way is to use the whereis command to find every program you need, and then fully qualify everything. For example: whereis cp Would tell you where cp is. Here is the output from that command on my system: cp: /bin/cp /usr/bin/cp /usr/man/man1/cp.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/cp.1.gz I don't recommend this aproach for two reasons. First, it can be very time consuming if you are using a lot of programs. Second, if you want to give someone else your script for some reason, it may or may not run depending on if programs are in a different location. - --- Joseph C. Lininger jbahm at pcdesk.net - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rejean Proulx" <rejean@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 6:13 AM Subject: Question About Path And Commands I want to set up a weekly cron with the diff and the mail command. Cron requires that everything is fully qualified. How do I tell where the diff and mail commands are found? For example, I know that cp is in ;/bin/ My script keeps failing and I am trying to fix it. Rejean Proulx Visit my family at http://interfree.ca MSN is: rejp at rogers.com Ham License VA3REJ _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 iQA/AwUBQBQxdCenap9Jqj2wEQIGswCgit6xkeNnr1tBWsC7FL+5QX7/xegAoKBc TFoJbykzRkVc4m2uynf6AT9y =KDz5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
