Jonathan Leroy wrote: > 2013/3/7 Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org>: > > What default shell and cron are you using? > > Bash, and Debian's default cron (http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/cron).
I have the same and do not have any error with it. There should be no need for extra backslashes quoting that character. The original message had the line abbreviated and word wrapped. Is it possible that the original file has a spurious newline in it that may be hard to see? Can you double check the contents of that file? Your editor may have done automatic word wrapping and inserted a newline without your commanding it. $ wc -l /etc/cron.d/php5 7 /etc/cron.d/php5 $ grep php.*delete /etc/cron.d/php5 | wc -l 1 Bob
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