Where can I set environment variables that crontab will use?

Question

I have a crontab running every hour. The user running it has environment variabless in the .bash_profile that work when the user runs the job from the terminal,

Answer 1

• Set Globally env

sudo sh -c "echo MY_GLOBAL_ENV_TO_MY_CURRENT_DIR=$(pwd)" >> /etc/environment"

• Add scheduled job to start a script

crontab -e

  */5 * * * * sh -c "$MY_GLOBAL_ENV_TO_MY_CURRENT_DIR/start.sh"

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