[GRLUG] Editing crontabs from CLI - ncurses?

Topher topher at t1kdevelopment.com
Fri Feb 19 20:17:17 EST 2010


On 2/19/2010 2:56 PM, john-thomas richards wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 01:54:18PM -0500, John J. Foerch wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 11:11:47AM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>> I *really* wanted to recommend vim.  :-)
>>
>> Seriously, though, crontab is not particularly complex.  One could learn
>> its syntax well enough to not need a manpage in about a half hour.  Now
>> if the interface is meant for end users...well...

My problem is that I actually edit crontab so rarely that I never
remember the syntax.  Fortunately, Google knows it *every time*.

Topher


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