linux - Cron job calling bash script and python scripts -


okay have bash script downloads web page, , use python pulls data out of downloaded page. bash script along lines of

#!/bin/bash html_file="web_page.html" wget -o /home/michael/documents/cs288/homework7/web_page.html http://markets.usatoday.com/custom/usatoday-com/html-mktscreener.asp?exchange=13\&screen=1 python hw_7_2.py $html_file 

now, when execute bash script command line runs fine, wget runs , python script executes, when set cron job wget run python script never executes. have not set cron jobs think may issue. crontab file looks like

shell=/bin/bash path=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin  * * * * * michael /home/michael/documents/cs288/homework7/usatoday_runner.sh 

try replace cron line :

* * * * * michael /home/michael/documents/cs288/homework7/usatoday_runner.sh > /tmp/why_is_this_failing.log 2>&1 

the answer may in /tmp/why_is_this_failing.log


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