Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 12:58:10 +0200 From: Antoine Jacoutot <ajacoutot@lphp.org> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backslash in crontab Message-ID: <200305311258.14004.ajacoutot@lphp.org> In-Reply-To: <20030531100436.GA75487@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <200305311049.38120.ajacoutot@lphp.org> <20030531100436.GA75487@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+2IrFY3Hnhkr+5cQRAqx4AJ46FZYC+hc2P5CeiSiPQ3UkpXQfFgCffUwa gICDT683Oz+1i3G6RajG3X8= =oc4D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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