[PLUG] Shell script error explanation needed

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Thu Aug 11 18:52:58 UTC 2016


On Thu, 11 Aug 2016, Steve Dum wrote:

> a ~ based path only works if you were cd'ed to your home directory when
> you submitted the script with at.

Steve,

   Ah, that explains it. If I correctly recall what I did in the past, I was
in my home directory when I created the at jobs.

> if you were in ~/mymailtools when it was submitted, then everything has to
> be relative to ~/mymailtools. Thus the earlier recommentation to use a
> full paths in the script so you don't have to be in a particular directory
> when submitting the at job.

   Thanks very much for the clarification. I learned a valuable lesson on
this.

Regards,

Rich



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