Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2021 16:57:38 +0200 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@getmail.no> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cron line continuation? Message-ID: <20210606165738.f944a3649687a4ae09bb3cf6@getmail.no> In-Reply-To: <0d9ed5fb-7b98-8fa5-2429-a00c615afc69@klop.ws> References: <0d9ed5fb-7b98-8fa5-2429-a00c615afc69@klop.ws>
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On Sun, 6 Jun 2021 13:56:18 +0200 Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to create a cron entry with line continuation. This document mentions the \ character: > https://docs.freebsd.org/doc/13.0-RELEASE/usr/local/share/doc/freebsd/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/configtuning-cron.html > > The manual pages do not mention this and I can't get it to work. > > Is this possible? 'man 5 crontab' has this section The ``sixth'' field (the rest of the line) specifies the command to be run. One or more command options may precede the command to modify processing behavior. The entire command portion of the line, up to a newline or % character, will be executed by /bin/sh or by the shell specified in the SHELL variable of the cronfile. Percent-signs (%) in the command, unless escaped with backslash (\), will be changed into newline characters, and all data after the first % will be sent to the command as standard input. HTH -- Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@getmail.no>
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