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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting cron entry error Post 302094245 by BOFH on Thursday 26th of October 2006 09:05:32 AM
Old 10-26-2006
Yea, it works in Linux but not in Solaris, AIX or any of the "real" Smilie Unices. While I've been mucking around with Linux since 1994 or so (Slackware), I was a production Solaris admin before I worked on production Linux boxes.

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Step values can be used in conjunction with ranges. Fol-
lowing a range with ``/<number>'' specifies skips of the
number's value through the range. For example, ``0-23/2''
can be used in the hours field to specify command execu-
tion every other hour (the alternative in the V7 standard
is ``0,2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16,18,20,22''). Steps are also
permitted after an asterisk, so if you want to say ``every
two hours'', just use ``*/2''.
Carl
 

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LESSECHO(1)						      General Commands Manual						       LESSECHO(1)

NAME
lessecho - expand metacharacters, such as * and ?, in filenames on Unix systems. SYNOPSIS
lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-a] file ... DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the lessecho command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. lessecho is a program that simply echos its filename arguments on standard output. But any argument containing spaces is enclosed in quotes. OPTIONS
A summary of options are included below. -ox Specifies "x" to be the open quote character. -cx Specifies "x" to be the close quote character. -pn Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer. -dn Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer. -a Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted. The default is that only arguments containing spaces are quoted. SEE ALSO
less(1) AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). Less was written by Mark Nudelman <markn@greenwoodsoftware.com> LESSECHO(1)
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