How to pass environment variables to Cron

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Issue

  • Having issues attempting to use certain environment variables within scripts run as cron job
  • What are the various options to run cron scripts that will be able to use/echo shell environment variables

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • bash
  • ksh
  • cron

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