Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-104
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man5/crontab.5.gz
The value string is not parsed for environmental substitutions,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Say instead: "ANY $ substitutions,"
thus lines like
PATH = $HOME/bin:$PATH
will not work as you might expect.
(well, say how it works then.)
And add:
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And
a=1
b=2
c=$a $b
* * * * * echo $c
will only create mail consisting of
$a $b
thus cron has no second-layer macro facility.
(And we see that cron is not just passing lines to the shell,
else we wouldn't see those $ at all!)
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