[GRLUG] Editing crontabs from CLI - ncurses?

Marissa Hogue rissajeanne at hogueweb.com
Fri Feb 19 20:23:25 EST 2010


On 02/19/2010 08:17 PM, Topher wrote:
> 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:
>>>    
>>>> 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*.

Google knows everything. Run.

Marissa


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