I have a crontab command for a python script that prints out files matching certain criteria in a directory. the script prints out the files in a for loop. I then pipe that command to tee the stdout to a file in another directory, and then remove those files through another pipe.
here is the command:
* * * * * ssh someserver.us.com "python /path/to/my/script.py | tee /path/to/my/text_file.txt | xargs rm"
I tested this out manually in linux, and it outputs to the txt file fine.
however, when the cron job (using the same command, but for a different output) runs, it clears that same txt file.
it seems to be only in cron does this work in a weird way..
i'm not too well versed in cron nor linux, so any help would be greatly appreciated!
SUGGESTION: Change your command to tee -a myfile.txt:
Here's the documentation for "tee":