Script Works, But Not with CRON

[Kenneth Brody]

Fairlight wrote:
[...]
> > 20 5 * * 1-5 sh -c ". /u/cron.env; /u/job1"
> 
> Something about this confuses me.
> 
> If you set the environment from the child script cron.env, its settings
> should never propogate back to the parent level at which job1 is running.
> 
> You're saying it does?

The command:

    scriptname

runs the script in a subshell.

The command:

    . scriptname

runs the script in the current shell.

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