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Old 06-05-2009
shahnazurs shahnazurs is offline
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If I use,

*/5 * * * * /home/shahnaz/abc.sh >> /home/shahnaz/abc.log

I get an error saying like

crontab: error on previous line; unexpected character found in line.

Can you say why it was thrown such error?