Re: cron job

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On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 17:54 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 29Jul2008 22:17, Ed Kasky <ed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > At 10:06 PM Tuesday, 7/29/2008, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote -=>
> >> On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 21:05 -0700, Nifty Fedora Mitch wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 04:29:44PM -0400, Max Pyziur wrote:
> >> > The above addresses stdout as requested
> >> > also consider stderr..
> >> > 2       1   *   *  *    $HOME/bin/check-calendar > /dev/null 2>&1 < 
> >> /dev/null &
> >>
> >> What's the final "&" for?
> >
> > From - http://www.freeos.com/guides/lsst/ch02sec20.html
> >
> > For background processing (With &, use to put particular command and  
> > program in background)
> > [linux-command]  &
> >
> > For example - $ ls / -R | wc -l &
> 
> And pointless in a cron job line.
> Patrick knows what it does, he's wondering why. So am I.
> You're aware cron runs jobs when they're due, even if other jobs are not
> yet finished?

You took the words right out of my mouth :-)

poc

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