On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: > Ok, good. Some minor remarks: > > Personally, I always use: > > #!/bin/sh > > instead of requiring bash. All UNIX systems have sh, bash is only > common. And even when present, it may not be in /bin. /bin/sh is > always there, and unless you're doing something quite unusual, it > works just fine.
Also, on many systems, /bin/sh is a much lighter interpreter than bash (eg Debian uses dash). It's more efficient to use that when you can, even if you use bash for your login shell. > On 20May2013 15:05, Avnesh Shakya <avnesh.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > | but when I m using like > | > | import random > | a = random.randrange(0, 59) > | */a * * * * bash /home/avin/cronJob/test.sh > | then it's showing error becose of varable 'a', so now how can i take > | variable? You put that into your crontab? I do not think this means what you think it means; cron does not execute arbitrary Python code. > - randrange() is like other python ranges: it does not include the end value. > So your call picks a number from 0..58, not 0..59. > Say randrange(0,60). Think "start, length". Nitpick: It's not start, length; it's start, stop-before. If the start is 10 and the second argument is 20, you'll get numbers from 10 to 19. But your conclusion is still accurate :) ChrisA (two Princess Bride references in as many threads, doing well!) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
