Manually running a cron job in SunOS 5.8

I was looking in the Solaris documentation and UNIX Man pages, however how do I manually run a cron job that is already set-up? I am troubleshooting an issue and the cron job runs just fine during the night, I would like to execute it manually for testing purposes. Thank you in advance.

Run this command :
crontab -l
And, look for the command you want to run and then just execute it on command line. The first five columns (separated by spaces) are date/time/day (skip those), after that you will see full path of the script/program. Just copy and paste that full path on command line.

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USED=$(df -h /arch | tail -1 | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d '%' -f 1)
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Hi,
When I used #!/usr/bin/sh now even the manul execution of the script fails with the same err:
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