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I've got a little php app that I'm trying to call from a crontab entry that's not working. The entry looks like this:

55 * * * * curl -m 600 --connect-timeout 120...

You're not supposed to cross post. See your other thread for a possible solution.

$ cat d
mark|64|200710|guitar
mike|61|200605|bass
pete|65|200704|drums
lisa|67|200705|vocals
$ awk -F '|' '{if($3=="200605") {print} }' d
mike|61|200605|bass
$

Works on my iMac OK. Did you...

I've been out of the game for a while with C++ but as I read your post, I was reminded of some classes I wrote to manage multiple threads. Also, Bartosz Milewski of Reliable Software - Creators of...

Still laughing at that one...

Will this work for your project?

$ cat myfile
1
2
3
4
5
$ sed -n '3p' myfile
3

Strange, my head command on Mac OS doesn't seem to take std input on this. Each command works fine alone. Here's what I used:

>cat b
1
2
3
4
5

>more +3 b | head -1
1

Odd? Seems like it...

Thanks. That really helped.

As an aside, I'm finding the online documentation difficult at times. What you stated so clearly was much harder to see in man crontab though it was there:

I found a nice page that explains crontab but I was wondering can the cron table be edited in a way other than with crontab -e? In other words, directly in some editor.

On Mac...

Smultron. It's free and works pretty good. The only thing missing is remote (FTP) editing. The macro facility uses the shell so any Unix commands are available. That part is really...

Regarding only changing the third line:

$ cat f
yy
yy
yy
yy
yy
$ sed '3s/yy/nn/' f
yy
yy
nn
yy
yy

Does this help?

Was it missing the command or did you just omit that in the example?