backslash in crontab

From: Antoine Jacoutot (ajacoutot_at_lphp.org)
Date: 05/31/03

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Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 10:49:34 +0200

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    Hi !

    How can I have one big line in my crontab splitted in multiple lines ?
    I tried the following:

    0 2 * * * command A && \
    command B && \
    command C

    But I get the following error message:

    /tmp/crontab.48pe18LXs2: 10 lines, 1344 characters.
    crontab: installing new crontab
    "/tmp/crontab.48pe18LXs2":9: bad hour
    crontab: errors in crontab file, can't install
    Do you want to retry the same edit?

    Note that if my crontab is written as:

    0 2 * * * command A && command B && command C
    ... then it works with no problem.

    Thanks.

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    Antoine Jacoutot
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