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Re: What is the correct way to set up login environment in crontab?


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: What is the correct way to set up login environment in crontab?
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:15:47 -0700
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On 11/09/2011 10:14 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
variable assignment VAR=blah.

That sets up a bash-local variable. If you want it to be exported to the environment visible to child processes, then you _also_ need to use export, as in either:

VAR=blah
export VAR

or

export VAR=blah


However, VAR is not seen in env in /path/programtorun.sh (called from cron).

Right - bash maintains two sets of variables, and only the exported ones are visible to children.

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