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http://www.unix.com – Hi all, I have sevaral jbos with bunch of export commands like export VARIABLE=value. They work perfectly when I run manually but when I try to run from crontab it stops right at this export command. But when I replace these export with these, crontab job works fine. VARIABLE = value; export VARIABLE. Is there a way to make crontab job work with the orginal way of exporting ( export VARIABLE=value). I have 100+ like this and don't want to send time modifying all these. :wall: :wall: Thanks in advance. mkneni (HowTos)

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