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Re: Editing cron from a shell script
Bingo! Thanks.
Regards,
Jason Stout
On Wed, 13 March 2002, kevin lyda wrote
>
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 02:39:46PM -0800, Jason Stout wrote:
> > How can you edit a crontab entry from within a shell script?
Specifically, I
> > want to delete an entry.
>
> crontab -l > $tmpfile
> grep -v line $tmpfile > $tmpfile.new
> crontab $tmpfile.new
>
> kevin
>
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