Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Leo, > > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 09:05:42PM +0100, Leo wrote: >> Still don't understand why anacron requires my script to have it though, >> when the script works fine when called directly from the command line. > > I'd love to know why this ever worked. Things like that bother me. > As far as I am aware, "\s" isn't anything special in a basic or > extended regular expression, only a Perl one, and you'd need to do > grep -P to enable those. > > What shell do you use on the command line? (echo $SHELL) > > What's in your environment? ("set" - then maybe put the output in a > pastebin like pastie.org) > > Or have I missed something obvious? > > Cheers, > Andy > >
I'm using the debian standard shell, so bash. And I haven't knowingly changed anything in the environment. Sorry, what is a pastebin - I haven't come across it before. Leo -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------