Simulate CRON

[Jonathan McKeown]

On Monday 14 June 2010 13:39:15 Carmel wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 16:41:19 +0530
>
> Amitabh Kant <amitabhkant at gmail.com> articulated:
> > On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Carmel <carmel_ny at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > > I saw a posting here months ago regarding a way to simulate running
> > > a script under CRON. I wrote it down and now cannot find it.
> > > Googling has not proved very useful either. I just cannot remember
> > > the program name.
> > >
> > > I hope I am explaining this sanely enough.
> >
> > Are you looking for a cron syntax check? If yes, then this site
> > should be of some help:
> >
> > http://www.hxpi.com/cron_sandbox.php
>
> No, sorry. There was a command or program, I forgot which, that would
> allow a user to run a program under another environment, similar to the
> environment that a script under CRON would be running under.

env(1)?

From the manpage:

The env utility executes another utility after modifying the environment as 
specified on the command line.

Jonathan