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Jerry Mcguire 10-14-2010 09:49 PM
breaking long command into lines in crontab
 
How to break strings of command into multi-lines in crontab? Thanks.

e.g.

Code:
# the following is a very long a gruesome command to be run at 09:59 Monday to Friday.
59 09 * * 1-5  source $HOME/some-definitions; sh /usr/local/my/long/name/application/bin/hello $(date +\%Y\%m\%d) >>/var/log/my/long/name/application/log/hello.log

bigrigdriver 10-14-2010 09:57 PM
Put the strings of command into a shell script. When you have the script running as you want it to (manually), then set up a cron job to run that script.

Jerry Mcguire 10-14-2010 10:13 PM
That may be, but still any next-line-continue character that works in crontab?


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