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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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