Re: Perl Script as a Cron Job

[Mazhar]

On 10/11/06, Ken Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 16:45 +0400, Mazhar wrote:

> I have created the file in Windows and have pasted the entries in
HP-UNIX (i
> mean copied). I cannot find the command dos2unix in HP UX.
>

easy check, change command line to this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

to strip the carriage returns try something like this:

tr -d '\r' < perl.pl > perl.pl.new

or for a simple perl way of doing it.  (Untested, reasonably sure it is
right)

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
while( <> ) {
       s/\r//;
       print;
}



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Hi Ken,

From the help above i created a new perl code and i was successfull in

running the code by typing the command /scripts/newxxx.pl but the same is
not executed by cron i have the cron entry as below

10 * * * * /scripts/newxxx.pl

Thanks in Advance

Regards
Mazhar