Steve Greenland wrote:
> > Would you mind stripping these first three lines from the "crontab -l"
> > output?
>
> Yes, because I think there is useful information there (primarily
> the second line, with the file name (usually) and date).
Could you write them to STDERR and the rest of the info to STDOUT?
> Since it's in a script anyway, why not strip it yourself:
>
> crontab -l |sed -e '1,/^# (Cron version/ d'
>
> (actually "sed -e '1,3 d'" would proably be sufficient.)
I thought about this, but it requries my script to know about the
internals of crontab. If crontab ever changed, then a problem could
arise. I prefer to keep related functionality as together as possible.
> I'm going to close this one.
Hold on just a sec... Let's resolve how this is going to be handled,
first.
Brian
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