[Question]: how to change the home directory while creating cronjob?? If my file was in different directory then cron runs on home directory??

[vishnumur777]

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Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2023 23:13:01 +0530 (IST)

/root/bashPractice/insert.sh: line 3: ./content.sh: No such file or directory
cat: '*.n': No such file or directory

[t8m]

You cannot change the directory where the command from crontab is run at. But that's no problem, you can do that in the command itself.

* * * * * cd /whatever/directory ; yourscript

[vishnumur777]

Thank you @t8m