how to add stuff to crontab without using crontab -e
Antonio Olivares
olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 13 03:53:37 UTC 2009
> [olivares at localhost Documents]$ ./edit-crontab
> ./edit-crontab: line 7: unexpected EOF while looking for
> matching `"'
>
>
I have fixed it. Thank you very much again for your kind help :)
[olivares at localhost Documents]$ crontab -l
# min hr dom mon dow command
30 04 * * 1-5 ~/alarm >& /dev/null
30 05 * * 1-5 killall -9 /usr/bin/mplayer >& /dev/null
#10 06 * * ~/alarm2 >& /dev/null
[olivares at localhost Documents]$ ./edit-crontab
[olivares at localhost Documents]$ crontab -l
# min hr dom mon dow command
30 04 * * 1-5 ~/alarm >& /dev/null
30 05 * * 1-5 killall -9 /usr/bin/mplayer >& /dev/null
#10 06 * * ~/alarm2 >& /dev/null
15 16 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/poweroff >/dev/null 2>&1
[olivares at localhost Documents]$ cat edit-crontab
#!/bin/sh
set -ue
tmp=/tmp/crontab$$
crontab -l >"$tmp"
echo "15 16 * * 1-5 /usr/bin/poweroff >/dev/null 2>&1" >>"$tmp"
crontab "$tmp"
rm "$tmp"
Regards,
Antonio
More information about the fedora-list
mailing list