IMO:
Comment: aagh! don't do that. No sed. No awk.
Use the crontab command only. Some people have used vi, but editor settings have the potential to render your whole crontab into garbage.
You can do what you want, of course, but if you keep on doing what you seem to be doing, keep lots of backups. And remember, if this is the root crontab you can break lots of other things accidentally.
Hi,
I would like to get rid of all comment in an xml file by grep or sed command:
The content seem like this:
<!-- ab cd
ef gh
ij kl -->
Anyone can help?
Thanks and Regards (3 Replies)
I'm trying to write a script to help automate some VERY tedious manual tasks.
I have groups of fairly large XML files (~3mb+) that I need to edit.
I need to look through the files and parse the XML looking for a certain flag contained in a field. If I find this flag (an integer value) I need... (4 Replies)
I am running a script remotely to do the following
1. Kill all processes by a user
2. Uninstall certain packages
3. FTP over a new file
4. Kill a ldap process that is not allowing my /devdsk/c0t0d0s7 slice to un-mount
5. Unmount /h
6. comment out the slice in vfstab
7. newfs the... (9 Replies)
Hi all,
I would want to remove all comments from my ruby/rails program. It may seem like a simple task, but it is not so. Because you need to have your tool implemented as like your language parser which is actually not so easy.
And am in the search of it, to remove comment from ruby/rails.... (4 Replies)
Again a comment removal requirement from me, refer my previous problem & solution for removing comment from ruby scripts: https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-scripting/118296-best-way-removing-comment-ruby-program.html
This time, it is for stripping of comments from Shell Script. I search for... (2 Replies)
I have around 25 hosts and each hosts has 4 instance of jboss and 4 different ip attached to it . I need to make some changes to the startup scripts. Any tips appreciated. I have total of 100 instances which bind to 100 different ip address based on instance name.
For example
File1
... (1 Reply)
My first comment on every file contains the license message. I want to replace with a new license message. I used the below sed script, which replaces all comments. What is the modification or any other method with awk script for the below to edit only the first comment(license message)?
#sed -f... (1 Reply)
I have tried a lot, Need your help guys.
SAS Program:
data one ; /* Data step */
Input name $; /*Dec variables*/
I want to remove the commented part(/* Data step */) alone. I have tried using sed command but it is deleting the entire line itself. i need unix command to separate this and... (6 Replies)
I am trying to comment out the crontab entries using sed.
I want to comment it out for a particular environment say '/mypath/scripts/'.
Using the full path as pattern, it is working. but using variable it is not working. i have tried double quotes too. but no luck!
$ crontab -l
... (3 Replies)
Dear Gurus,
I have a file which comes every day with set of data, as a part of processing i want to add a comment at the start of every line.
e.g of file
<PCL>
2E;"HCA";"COP Car A";"ODBS_CFG"
7C;"DD";"Doors Car D";"ODBS_CFG"
3D;"XA";"Auxiliary Car A";"ODBS_CFG"
3E;"XB";"Auxiliary... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: guddu_12
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
crontab
CRONTAB(1) BSD General Commands Manual CRONTAB(1)NAME
crontab -- maintain crontab files for individual users (V3)
SYNOPSIS
crontab [-u user] file
crontab [-u user] { -l | -r | -e }
DESCRIPTION
The crontab utility is the program used to install, deinstall or list the tables used to drive the cron(8) daemon in Vixie Cron. Each user
can have their own crontab, and though these are files in /var, they are not intended to be edited directly.
If the allow file exists, then you must be listed therein in order to be allowed to use this command. If the allow file does not exist but
the deny file does exist, then you must not be listed in the deny file in order to use this command. If neither of these files exists, then
depending on site-dependent configuration parameters, only the super user will be allowed to use this command, or all users will be able to
use this command. The format of these files is one username per line, with no leading or trailing whitespace. Lines of other formats will
be ignored, and so can be used for comments.
The first form of this command is used to install a new crontab from some named file or standard input if the pseudo-filename '-' is given.
The following options are available:
-u Specify the name of the user whose crontab is to be tweaked. If this option is not given, crontab examines ``your'' crontab, i.e.,
the crontab of the person executing the command. Note that su(1) can confuse crontab and that if you are running inside of su(1) you
should always use the -u option for safety's sake.
-l Display the current crontab on standard output.
-r Remove the current crontab.
-e Edit the current crontab using the editor specified by the VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables. The specified editor must edit
the file in place; any editor that unlinks the file and recreates it cannot be used. After you exit from the editor, the modified
crontab will be installed automatically.
FILES
/var/cron/allow List of users allowed to use crontab
/var/cron/deny List of users prohibited from using crontab
/var/cron/tabs Directory for personal crontab files
DIAGNOSTICS
A fairly informative usage message appears if you run it with a bad command line.
SEE ALSO crontab(5), cron(8)STANDARDS
The crontab command conforms to IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') with the exception that the dangerous variant of calling crontab without a file
name in the first form of the command is not allowed by this implementation. The pseudo-filename '-' must be specified to read from standard
input. The new command syntax differs from previous versions of Vixie Cron, as well as from the classic SVR3 syntax.
AUTHORS
Paul Vixie <paul@vix.com>
BSD May 13, 2010 BSD