Re: continuation character in cron jobs

2007-10-21 Thread David Liontooth
Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 12:03:30PM -0700, David Liontooth wrote: >> >> I'd like to use the continuation character \ in a cron job, but I get an >> error when I do. >> >> I use "crontab -e" to edit the crontab and have this sort of thing: >> >> 30 5 * * * script varabl

Re: continuation character in cron jobs

2007-10-21 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 12:03:30PM -0700, David Liontooth wrote: > > I'd like to use the continuation character \ in a cron job, but I get an > error when I do. > > I use "crontab -e" to edit the crontab and have this sort of thing: > > 30 5 * * * script varable variable \ > variable-text >

continuation character in cron jobs

2007-10-21 Thread David Liontooth
I'd like to use the continuation character \ in a cron job, but I get an error when I do. I use "crontab -e" to edit the crontab and have this sort of thing: 30 5 * * * script varable variable \ variable-text when I try to save, I get this: crontab: installing new crontab "/tmp/crontab.kZ