[lug] Shell/Cron and passing args

[Kenneth D. Weinert]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:16:47 -0700 (MST)
Chip Atkinson <chip at rmpg.org> wrote:

> Hi John.
> 
> Are you trying to take the output of make_featured.php with an argument of
> links?  If so, you probably want to use back ticks.  I believe that cron
> uses sh rather than bash.

	Won't cron use the value of SHELL= in the crontab file?

	From "man 5 crontab":

 Several  environment  variables are set up automatically by the cron(8)
 daemon.  SHELL is set to /bin/sh, and LOGNAME and HOME are set from
 the /etc/passwd line of the crontab's owner.  PATH is set to
 "/usr/bin:/bin".  HOME, SHELL, and PATH may be overridden by settings
 in the crontab; LOGNAME may not.

	This may be (and probably is) distribution (or at least GNU
tools) specific behaviour, so if you need to be portable then Chip's
answer is more correct.

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