Re: grep: -i option not working i cronjobs

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

> J. W.Andersen, Falster System Teknik wrote:
> >Scenario: grep 2.51, distro: SuSE 9.1
> >
> >When grep is running in a cron job, the "-i" option does not work.
> >I get matches reported only when PATTERN and file content is
> >exaclty identical. When run from console, everything works fine.
> >Same result under different shells - sh, bash and csh have been tested.
[...]
> Please give enough details so that we can reproduce the problem.  Give the 
> exact grep command being executed, and an example of the contents of a file 
> to be searched, in which grep fails to find the correct matches.

yes, we could make use of more detailed description.

A wild guess:
it might be something with locale settings.  Try running grep with LC_ALL=C.
        export LC_ALL=C  # in bash

Or else try to investigate what is the locale setting in shell and in cron.
The command ``locale'' describes current settings.

Hope this helps.
        Stepan Kasal