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Old 10-27-2011
Editing crontab via ksh
Hi all,

I am trying the following
Quote:
oracle@blah:blah > {
> crontab -e
> echo "#this is a test"
> echo "\033:wq!"
> } | crontab -l
I am hoping that the crontab would be changed.
but it prints the previous crontab and says
Quote:
"The crontab file was not changed."
Can anyone tell me the correct ksh command that should be used here?
I don't want to edit the crontab with crontab -e, I need to edit it via ksh.

Thank you,
Sara
# 2  
Old 10-27-2011
Code:
crontab -l > cron
echo "#this is a test" >> cron
crontab cron

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ajaba
# 3  
Old 10-27-2011
Super! Thanks Smilie
Last edited by ajaba; 10-27-2011 at 07:22 AM..
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