[OpenIndiana-discuss] Syntax Errors From Crontab Lines

[jay at m5.chicago.il.us]

Why has no one pointed out the obvious problem with the original
poster's crontab line -- that it contained a percent sign?  Everything
following the percent sign in a crontab line is input to the command
prior to the percent sign, with subsequent percent signs translated to
newlines.  Or is that no longer true in OpenIndiana?  It is documented
on my Schillix system, and it has been the behavior of cron since the
beginning of time.  It is the only way to run a command with more than
one line of standard input, without creating a separate input file.


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