On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Mi, den 08.09.2004 schrieb dballester@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx um 14:53: > > > put all in one shell script an call this shell > > > David Ballester Montolio > > man 5 crontab: > > SHELL variable of the cronfile. Percent-signs (%) in the > command, > unless escaped with backslash (\), will be changed into newline > charac- > ters, and all data after the first % will be sent to the > command as > standard input. > > Why not reading the docs and doing what its saying? I prefer going the > straight way than going such "workarounds". What workaround? The "straight way", as you put it, would be to do it ina script, so that, if you just want to modify what the cron job does, and now when it does it, you just edit the script. Putting multiple commands in a crontab entry often just winds up with an unreadable crontab entry. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe
