On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 12:03:30PM -0700, David Liontooth wrote:
>
> I'd like to use the continuation character \ in a cron job, but I get an
> error when I do.
>
> I use "crontab -e" to edit the crontab and have this sort of thing:
>
> 30 5 * * * script varable variable \
> variable-text
>
> when I try to save, I get this:
>
> crontab: installing new crontab
> "/tmp/crontab.kZ7WHF/crontab":122: bad minute
> errors in crontab file, can't install
>
> Does anyone know if there's a way to get cron to accept a continuation
> character?
man (5) crontab
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 crontab file. Percent-signs (%) in the
command, unless escaped with backslash (\), will be changed into
newline characters, and all data after the first % will be sent to
the command as standard input. There is no way to split a single
command line onto multiple lines, like the shell's trailing "\".
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