when i run sed from crontab environment, it gives me errors

dentys · 07-02-2012, 01:44 AM

Hi,

I have a simple bash script which runs this command

Code:

/bin/sed  -i y/şàúŞȘâöìåâşăș/sauSSaoiaasas/ 1341180120.H390916P16090.something.yoyo.ro:2,S 2>&1

If i runnit from console, everithing works as espected.

When i runnit from crontab, i get this error

Code:

/bin/sed: -e expression #1, char 43: strings for `y' command are different lengths

I've been searching already for a few days for a sollution and it seems i'm unique in some way

Help, please.

Slackyman · 07-02-2012, 03:33 AM

Have you set a different charset for your user environment?

dentys · 07-02-2012, 05:59 AM

in both cases the user environment is root.
from console i get

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

in cronenv is not set. i tryied to specify the LANG var in the script, but there was no change. If i don't understand what you mean by charset, please be more explicite.

Slackyman · 07-02-2012, 06:04 AM

I meant the "UTF-8" part of LANG.
Did you "set" LANG in your script or DID you "export"?

pixellany · 07-02-2012, 06:14 AM

Have you tried quoting the "y command"?---eg sed -i 'y/abc/ABC' filename

Is this the filename that sed is operating on?

Quote:

1341180120.H390916P16090.something.yoyo.ro:2,S

dentys · 07-02-2012, 09:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slackyman

I meant the "UTF-8" part of LANG.
Did you "set" LANG in your script or DID you "export"?

i don't want to tell you what i did!

adding this to the script solved the problem.
export LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"

The locale parameters, in cron env, were set to POSIX. Switching them to "en_US.UTF-8" solved the issue.

thread can be closed.
you were verry helpfull.
Thank You (!)