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Date:      Mon, 7 Jun 2021 00:51:41 -0700
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Ask_Bj=C3=B8rn_Hansen?= <ask@develooper.com>
To:        Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cron line continuation?
Message-ID:  <8C2E306D-032F-4224-B03F-194C30E13D43@develooper.com>
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> On Jun 7, 2021, at 00:42, Ronald Klop <ronald-lists@klop.ws> wrote:
>=20
> which is much better readable. I can't get this to work so the =
documentation might be inconsistent.

I don=E2=80=99t think cron supports escaping newline. You can escape % =
as described, but (as you know) that=E2=80=99s something else.

The standard solution to this is not to write programs in the cron =
config. Write a script or program elsewhere and have cron execute it.


Ask=

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