Why has no one pointed out the obvious problem with the original poster's crontab line -- that it contained a percent sign? Everything following the percent sign in a crontab line is input to the command prior to the percent sign, with subsequent percent signs translated to newlines. Or is that no longer true in OpenIndiana? It is documented on my Schillix system, and it has been the behavior of cron since the beginning of time. It is the only way to run a command with more than one line of standard input, without creating a separate input file.
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