trouble using a scheduled task to run a shell script (ubuntu linux)

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Published on 2010-04-06T21:28:48Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 21:33 UTC
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I'm trying to create a scheduled task that runs a shell script recurrently, and I'm having some trouble getting it to work. I give it the following command to run every minute:

~/Desktop/foo/my_script

But it doesn't ever run. (This command runs the shell script through the terminal no problem.) Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Thanks!

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