Crontab

[ssurmi]

Hi,

I am trying to run a script via crontab in cygwin. I have set up the cygwin to run the cronjob. It is working for copying files from one directory to other etc. Here is what I am trying to do.

I have a directory full of .tar files.

I am trying to untar them all at a time. To do that I have written a script called mytar.sc that looks like:

for a in *.tar; do tar -xvf $a; done


If I try to run this script directly from the command line as:

/cygdrive/c/bin/CYGWIN/home/urmiss/mytar.sc

it works perfectly by untaring all the .tar files. But I have to add that in my cronjob. So I have edited my crontab with this line as:

* * * * * * /cygdrive/c/bin/CYGWIN/home/urmiss/mytar.sc

and it is doing nothing. Just creating a dead.letter that has the info as:

dead.letter: not found

Am I missing in any Env variable?

Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[Khalid Ali]

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