backslash in crontab

[Antoine Jacoutot]

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Hi !

How can I have one big line in my crontab splitted in multiple lines ?
I tried the following:

0 2 * * * command A && \
command B && \
command C

But I get the following error message:

/tmp/crontab.48pe18LXs2: 10 lines, 1344 characters.
crontab: installing new crontab
"/tmp/crontab.48pe18LXs2":9: bad hour
crontab: errors in crontab file, can't install
Do you want to retry the same edit?

Note that if my crontab is written as:

0 2 * * * command A && command B && command C
... then it works with no problem.

Thanks.

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Antoine Jacoutot
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