On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:30:36 -0600, Joseph wrote: > I'm trying to backup crontab from various boxes to files, so I'm using > (run once a month) 11 01 * * 5 crontab -l > > /home/joseph/business/backup/crontabs/syscon7_joseph_crontab > > but I can from bash: cannot overwrite existing file
Do you have noclobber in your shell options? If so, replace > with >| to overwrite files. Or use tee, which will happily overwrite files with no consideration of their type, content or importance :( -- Neil Bothwick Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional!!
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