Recursive File Renaming script doesn't work from crontab

Question

Crontab launches the script, the podcast updates correctly, but none of the file renaming (1st loop) or file moving (2nd loop). If I run the script from the command-line, works perfectly.

I have added the "echo" lines to troubleshoot, the $file variable is consistent when run through command-line and crontab.

#/bin/sh

# Mad Money updates at 6:40 pm (timezone?) M-F
# At 6:30 pm CST it was ready to download
# http://podcast.cnbc.com/mmpodcast/lightninground.xml

PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
echo "paths"
echo $PATH

podcast_folder=$"/home/zenon/podcasts/MAD_MONEY_W__JIM_CRAMER_-_Full_Episode"
episode_folder=$"/mnt/black-2tb-001/plex-server/shows/Mad-Money/Season-1"

hpodder update
sleep 1

hpodder download
sleep 1

cd ${podcast_folder}

for file in "$podcast_folder"/*.mp4; do
    echo "Processing ${file}"
    #"MadMoney-" Name
    name=${file:60:9}
        echo "podcast name is ${name}"
    #"04" Month
    month=${file:69:2}
        echo "month is ${month}"
    #"18" Day
    day=${file:71:2}
        echo "day is ${day}"
    #"13" yr
    yr=${file:73:2}
        echo "year is 20${yr}"
    title="${name}20${yr}.${month}.${day}.mp4"

        echo "file ${file}"
        echo "title ${title}"

#   cp ${file} ${title}
    mv ${file} ${title}

done

cd ${podcast_folder}


for file in "$podcast_folder"/*.mp4; do
    chown zenon:plex ${file}
    mv ${file} ${episode_folder}
done

# deletes any files older than 9 days
find ${episode_folder} -type f -mtime +9 -exec rm {} \;

exit

here is the debugging output from the script

cat cron.log 
paths
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
1 podcast(s) to consider

Get: 4 MAD MONEY W/ JIM CRAMER - Full Episode                                  
100%                                                                   1 B/s 0s
0 episode(s) to consider from 1 podcast(s)
0%                                                                     0 B/s 0s
Processing $/home/zenon/podcasts/MAD_MONEY_W__JIM_CRAMER_-_Full_Episode/*.mp4

Answer 1

you have a mistake in the first line, you should change

#/bin/sh to #!/bin/sh