Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. The key words there are "they are not intended to be edited directly", so this answer is incomplete without Celada's command below, which provides a safer answer to the "copy to another user" portion of the question. If people get in the habit of directly editing crontabs without submitting them through the crontab command, they forego a lot of sanity-checking the command provides. MontyHarder I agree "they are not intended to be edited directly" but what if there is a need of it, like there is a need to make an entry in the crontab via a bash script.
PrabhatKumarSingh You still shouldn't directly edit the file. If you read Celada's command below, you'd have seen an example of how a script could manipulate a crontab file without directly editing it. Community Bot 1. Celada Celada There are many good reasons why crontab files should not be directly manipulated by anything other than the OS itself. This is a far better solution. I really think it needs to be incorporated into the official answer.
MontyHarder There isn't really an "official" answer. In short, you have 15 rep, you can suggest this is the right answer by upvoting it. Also, if you want to suggest improvements to the other answer, you need to comment on that answer—otherwise, its author won't be notified of your comment. The corollary of this answer is that one should redirect the output of crontab -l to a file, move the file to the other system, and pipe it to crontab.
That would be quite the annoyance to keep track of. As the original asker, I think I should perhasp weigh in on this: The accepted answer was chosen on the basis of my question in its literal sense; the location of the file. For eg searchfile. Eliminating words from a file through ngrams stored in another file. Hello, I have a large data file which contains a huge amount of garbage i. An example will make this clear: kpaware nlupset rrrbring In other words these words are invalid in English and constitute garbage in the data.
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I am not sure how to do this with file handles. Verify the contents of user's crontab file by using crontab -l as described in "How to Display a crontab File". Creating and Editing crontab Files The simplest way to create a crontab file is to use the crontab -e command to invoke the text editor set up for your system environment, defined by the EDITOR environment variable.
How to Create or Edit a crontab File Optional Become superuser to create or edit a crontab file belonging to root or another user. Create a new crontab file, or edit an existing one. Caution - If you accidentally enter the crontab command with no option, press the interrupt character for your editor.
Verify the crontab file by using the crontab -l command.
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