Cron Problem

rgheck rgheck at comcast.net
Sat Aug 22 13:55:22 UTC 2009


On 08/22/2009 09:28 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> From the crontab(5) manual page reads:
>
>       The "sixth" field (the rest of the line) specifies the  command  
> to  be
>       run.   The  entire  command  portion  of the line, up to a 
> newline or %
>       character, will be executed by /bin/sh or by the shell specified 
> in the
>       SHELL  variable  of  the  cronfile.   Percent-signs (%) in the 
> command,
>       unless escaped with backslash (\), will be changed into newline 
> charac-
>       ters,  and  all  data  after the first % will be sent to the 
> command as
>       standard input.
>
>
Thanks. I'm guessing this solves it.

rh





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