Running Bash scripts via /Library/LaunchDaemons

I have a .plist in /Library/LaunchDaemons that calls a Bash script that lives in /usr/bin.. ...
With the script, one if the things I am trying to do is copy a directory from a non-admin user account, and place it on the administrator desktop.. Something like :
cp -R /Users/myuser/theDirectoryIwant /Users/admin/Desktop
The above code runs fine from Termimal ( I do 'sudo' first '), but if I add the line to the script...nothing seems to happen..I know the script is running ( I have it set for every hour in the .plist file, and I can see output in the Console) ...since it will run code such as this just fine :
cd ~/Desktop
mkdir Test
I am guessing that anything called from usr/bin would not need 'sudo' in a shell script there since it is already running as root?

I would suggest that you test your launchd environment out by capturing the output from
date >/tmp/myscript.txt
pwd >>/tmp/myscript.txt
id >>/tmp/myscript.txt
printenv >>/tmp/myscript.txt
Now allow this to be run via your launchd .plist and then look at the output. That should tell you what your environment looks like when your .plist runs.

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