I have a startup-script that works well when I launch a compute engine on google cloud. Nevertheless it doesn't seem to execute the following command.
echo ${path} > ~/pd.txt
Actually I can't retrieve my file when I look for it at the indicated path.
Do you have any clue on how I could save a file during startup-script ?
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When startup scripts run on GCE, they run under the root account.
The value of ~ depends on the user. Therefore for startup scripts ~ is /root. If you login with the user name bob.jones then ~ is /home/bob.jones.
You will find the results of echo ${path} > ~/pd.txt located at /root/pd.txt
A couple of tips with start scripts:
- Do not expect $PATH to exist. Always specify the full path for both programs and filenames.
- Do not use environment variables.
- Do not use
~. In your example specify the output filename full path.
John Hanley
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