I was doing some more cron work and was reminded that I never posted the detail
I had in mind. Here's how I got the lowdown on the cron shell environment...
I setup a temporary cron job to invoke a shell script to create a little web page:
#!/bin/bash
DIR="/home/radilly/html/test"
OUT_FILE="${DIR ...
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- 2011-06-21T07:26:35-07:00
- Forum: Developers
- Topic: How to resize via a cron job?
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- 2011-04-29T14:34:01-07:00
- Forum: Developers
- Topic: How to resize via a cron job?
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Re: How to resize via a cron job?
$TIMER is a reference file. The touch command resets the modification time to the current time in the last line of the script.
The "find .... -anewer $TIMER ...." clause fires when a .jpg is found with a newer timestamp than the reference file (which was reset after at the end of the last run ...
The "find .... -anewer $TIMER ...." clause fires when a .jpg is found with a newer timestamp than the reference file (which was reset after at the end of the last run ...