Cron woes

[paul-bsc]

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This should be a simple one. I have written a simple bash script that downloads from URLs in a file. If I run the script from the terminal it works as expected. If I run it as a cron job then it throws the Signature Extraction Failed Error. Any help would be really appreciated.

[dstftw]

Most likely you have multiple instances of youtube-dl installed and one found from PATH by cron is outdated.

[paul-bsc]

Thanks.. I think this has something to do with the way Python versions are managed on my PC. Adding a pip update to the script sorted this out. Thanks.