backslash in crontab

[Antoine Jacoutot]

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On Saturday 31 May 2003 12:04, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> Yes -- the entry in the crontab file has to be all on one line, as
> you've discovered.  If you absolutely have to reformat things, then
> generally the way to go is to create a shell script containing your
> complex command and run that out of cron instead:
>
> crontab entry:
>
>     0 2 * * * myscript
>
>     % cat <<E_O_SCRIPT > myscript
>     #!/bin/sh
>
>     command A && \
>         command B && \
>         command C
>     E_O_SCRIPT

Thanks :)

Antoine
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