Re: [Hampshire] Pipe issues

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Author: Jim Kissel
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To: linux, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Pipe issues


Leo wrote:
> I've got a shell script that calls a program and pipes its output to
> grep, i.e.
>
> #!/bin/bash
> ....
> program | grep -v "remaining\s*$"
> ....
>
> When I run the script this works fine (i.e. no lines output ending in
> remaining). However if I set the script to run using anacron then I
> always get an email with loads of lines with "remaining" on the end of
> them. I've tried loads of things to attempt to debug it, but to no
> avail. Can anyone help?
>

set $PATH just after #!/bin/bash to what ever your local environment has
it set to.

YMMV

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