Question

I have written a KornShell (ksh) script that sets an array the following way:

set -A fruits Apple Orange Banana Strawberry 

but when I am trying to run it from within cron, it raises the following error:

Your 'cron' job on myhost /myScript.sh  produced the following output:  myScript.sh: -A: bad option(s) 

I have tried many crontab syntax variants, such as:

Attempt 1:

0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /path/to/script/myScript.sh 

Attempt 2:

0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * /path/to/script/./myScript.sh 

Attempt 3:

0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * cd /path/to/script && ./myScript.sh 

Any workaround would be sincerely appreciated. Thanks much in advance!

Answer 1

Although I’m not sure it’s the best way to do it, I’ve managed to solve it this way:

Attempt 4:

0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * cd /path/to/script && ksh ./myScript.sh