Debug cron script

Cron Job showing different results from what the results shown on terminal when you run the shell script.

Reasons: Cron tasks run in a shell that is started without your login scripts being run, which set up paths, environment variables etc.

When building cron tasks, prefer things like absolute paths and explicit options etc

• env -I /pathtoyourbashscript.sh
• env -u root -I /pathtoyourbashscript.sh (running as root can also help), or better still do chmod +x /yourbashscript.sh and use the first command instead

trap "set +x; sleep 5; set -x" DEBUG

making sure, each scripts runs one after the other, good for debug

Notion Split screen shift + command + n, navigate page command + ~

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