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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting sed adding/removing comment in crontab Post 302469840 by BeefStu on Monday 8th of November 2010 10:21:18 AM

11-08-2010

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jim mcnamara

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.

Quote thanks for the tip. Not sure why you see this as a problem, can
you elaborate a bit more?

My issue is I want to automate a process through a script and I want
the cron disabled while the script is running. Would this be a better solution?

crontab -l > filename # save cron file
crontab -r # remove cron file
do work
....
....
crontab <file name> # re-instantiate cron

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