[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 4 10 * * 1-5 find > /cygdrive/d/Apps_v8p4//Bridge/DataFeed/deploy//quotefeed/logs > -type f -name stdout.log\.* -mtime +2 > > /cygdrive/d/Apps_v8p4/Bridge/DataFeed/deploy/bin/testfind.log
The need for quoting the argument to -name is to keep the shell from expanding globs (* and ?), so that they can be evalulated instead by find. This can be done either with quotes or backslashes, so I would expect to see -name stdout.log.\* or -name stdout.log\* where the former would match only stdout.log.03Nov2006 and the latter would match both that and stdout.log. However, what you have: -name stdout.log\.* does not make any sense as the "." is not a glob character and does not need to be quoted, leaving the "*" unprotected and vulnerable to shell expansion if there happened to be a matching filename in the current directory (although that typically results in syntax errors from find.) This could explain why it happens to work from the command line but not in cron, but it's kind of a long shot. I don't see any other common cron problems (D is not a network drive and your mounts are system-mode.) In any case I would fix the quoting, regardless of other issues. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/