Not working when running as a cron job

[paul30003]

Hi,

I've created a script to add exif data to an image.  I extract filemodifydate and process it with Imagemagick it works as expected when run from terminal, however if I run the same script as a cron job, I get no exif data.

I have been doing a little debugging,

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DATETIME=$(exiftool -filemodifydate $SRCDIR/${fnames[$i]}) #Assign jpg modified date to $DATETIME

echo ${DATETIME:36:17}>>$DEST/log.txt #For debugging to check if DATETIME gets a value!

convert $SRCDIR/${fnames[$i]} -font Helvetica -pointsize 20 -draw "fill white  text 10,470 '${DATETIME:36:17}' " $DEST/${fnames[$i]}


when run from the command line, log.txt gets updated.  From a cron job.  Nothing!

Much googling and code modification yields no results, so I've landed here to ask for help. What am I missing.

Many thanks.

Paul

[StarGeek]

Is exiftool in the path that cron can use?  Maybe explicitly set the path to exiftool in cron job to see if that's the problem.

[paul30003]

Is exiftool in the path that cron can use?  Maybe explicitly set the path to exiftool in cron job to see if that's the problem.

Yep,

Thats fixed.

I changed my script as follows.

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DATETIME=$(/usr/local/bin/exiftool -filemodifydate $SRCDIR/${fnames[$i]})

echo ${DATETIME:36:17}>>$DEST/log.txt

convert $SRCDIR/${fnames[$i]} -font Helvetica -pointsize 20 -draw "fill white  text 10,470 '${DATETIME:36:17}' " $DEST/${fnames[$i]}


Works as expected.

Thanks for your help.

Paul