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Asked: 2026-05-21T04:26:23+00:00

Struggling a bit on this… I’m using crontab for a lot of todo list

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Struggling a bit on this…

I’m using crontab for a lot of todo list management:

Here’s a snippet of my crontab…

$TASK=/home/pgrads/joseph/emailAnalysis/single
0,30 * * * * ~/emailAnalysis/python/script.py
15,45 * * * * $TASK/task.sh "foo"
10,40 * * * * /home/pgrads/joseph/emailAnalysis/single/task.sh "bar"

My problem is that the ‘foo’ task is not triggering – I get the error “/bin/sh: /task.sh: No such file or directory”.

A few googles haven’t got me very far – mainly they just give me variations on the man page… :s any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Remove the $ from your first line:

    TASK=/home/pgrads/joseph/emailAnalysis/single
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