curl -g and crontab

[Yixin Luo]

Yes. The curl works now. We checked the process step by step and located the
problem. The folder was created and the file was downloaded. The problem is
"tar -zxvf run-$nb\00.tar.gz" does not work and *tar.gz was removed. That's
why the folder is empty. If we run the script manually, every thing will be
ok. Any more suggestions about the tar? Is there any confliction between tar
and crontab?

-yixin-


On 2/10/06, Yixin Luo <luoyixin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello.
> We put the a following script file - yixin.sh in the crontab. After
> crontab running, new folders have been build but no files downloaded in
> those folders.  If we run the script manually, the files could be downloaded
> in these folders.
>
> yixin.sh
> "mkdir /home/dj/share/yixin/`date +%Y%m%d`
> cd /home/dj/share/yixin/`date +%Y%m%d`
> export nb=`date +%Y%m%d`
> export URL="ftp://starfish.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/pub/ocean/btoulany/GoMOOS/products
> "
> curl -g $URL/run-$nb\00.tar.gz -o run-$nb\00.tar.gz
> tar -zxvf run-$nb\00.tar.gz
> rm *tar.gz -rf
> "
>
> Here is our crontab file.
> 01 09 * * * /home/wam/yixin.sh
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> yixin
>
>