rm failing inside cron script

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Mar 15, 20268983 views

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I have a cron job calling a bash script which runs fine, except for one line inside it that is suppose to remove all fines in a directory. The result of this line is always 'no such file or directory' even though I have verified (many times) that there are files in that directory. The line in quest…

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rm /dir1/dir2/dir3/*

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Turned out to be my bad after all. What I actually had in the script was: I didn't realise that the quotes would be blocking the wildcard expansion so I never included them in the question. Removing the quotes fixed the problem, as I'm sure would ha…

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rm failing inside cron script

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