Cron Job Not Working

Probably Easy Solutin (I hope!)

[carfac]

Hi:

I have a simple cron job for rotating backup files. It is run by a script. I see it running, but it is not actually rotating the files. Probably something stupid I am missing, like a flag to the copy "cp" command, but I do not know what it is. Anybody want to look at my script and see what they think?

Script:

cp /hd2/backups/#*$!3.tar /hd2/backups/#*$!4.tar
sleep 30
cp /hd2/backups/#*$!2.tar /hd2/backups/#*$!3.tar
sleep 30
cp /hd2/backups/#*$!1.tar /hd2/backups/#*$!2.tar
sleep 30
cp /hd2/backups/#*$!.tar /hd2/backups/#*$!1.tar
sleep 150

(the script repeats with various other files, but this is the basic format)

Thanks!

Dave

[RonPK]

Some thoughts:
Does the command work if you run it from the command line?
Does the cron user have the necessary permissions to overwrite existing files?
What is the output of

cp -v /hd2/backups/#*$!.tar /hd2/backups/#*$!1.tar

(-v for being verbose)?