Re: backslash in crontab

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

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    To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 12:58:10 +0200

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    On Saturday 31 May 2003 12:04, Matthew Seaman wrote:
    > Yes -- the entry in the crontab file has to be all on one line, as
    > you've discovered. If you absolutely have to reformat things, then
    > generally the way to go is to create a shell script containing your
    > complex command and run that out of cron instead:
    >
    > crontab entry:
    >
    > 0 2 * * * myscript
    >
    > % cat <<E_O_SCRIPT > myscript
    > #!/bin/sh
    >
    > command A && \
    > command B && \
    > command C
    > E_O_SCRIPT

    Thanks :)

    Antoine
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