If you've put those two lines in your crontab, they get executed as separate jobs. Do the subscription directly in the echo command without using a variable, or put it in another script and call that script from crontab.
-Adam

On January 23, 2015 9:47:37 AM CST, Grigory Shamov <Grigory.Shamov@umanitoba.ca> wrote:
Hi All,

I have a weird (or stupid idk) problem. A script of mine produces
different results when ran interactively as root, from when ran as a cron
job.

used=`report -i --csv 2>/dev/null | awk '/Total/ {print $4}'`
echo $used is Total
 

The command executed says "Using config file XXX" to stderr and something
useful to stdout of which I extract the value of  Total. Redirecting the
barf to /dev/null. 

Now as a cron job the $used is empty. I believe that cronjob would
redirect stderr to stodut? But here it happens also for the subprocesses ?
Confused..

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