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Old 09-17-2013
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Hi

I have a requirement to write a shell script,that will check the all commented job in cron job.Please help !!
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Old 09-17-2013
Code:
crontab -l | egrep'^( |[TAB])*#'

Where [TAB} is a literal tab character ([CTRL]-V & [TAB]) in shell/vi(m)
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Old 09-17-2013
There may be more to it the simply checking one crontab. You did not specify what user(s): usually there are root, sys, and other system or application specific crontab files.
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