topic Re: crontab - 6th field - command with spaces - in Operating System - HP-UX

crontab - 6th field - command with spaces -

Stephen Badgett — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:16:11 GMT

crontab --
would this work in a crontab?

0 17 13 8 6 /home/myuser/scripts/myscript.sh 2>/tmp/ct.log

In other words does the sixth field continue to the end of line? Can the double quotes be used here like an string parameter for a program

Re: crontab - 6th field - command with spaces -

Jean-Luc Oudart — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:20:42 GMT

Seems fine to me

refer to crontab man pages :

"The sixth field, command (the balance of a line including blanks in a crontab file),"

Regards,
Jean-Luc

Re: crontab - 6th field - command with spaces -

RAC_1 — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:22:07 GMT

That should work.
Else at the start of your script do
exec 2> /tmp/ct.log

Anil

Re: crontab - 6th field - command with spaces -

Stephen Badgett — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:25:36 GMT

great - thank you

Re: crontab - 6th field - command with spaces -

Muthukumar_5 — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:28:48 GMT

Your setting on cron is good.

And more in man page say as,
The sixth field, command (the balance of a line including blanks in a
crontab file), is a string that is executed by the shell at the
specified times. A percent character (%) in this field (unless
escaped by a backslash (\)) is translated to a newline character,
dividing the field into "lines". Only the first "line" (up to a % or
end-of-line) of the command field is executed by the shell. Any other
"lines" are made available to the command as standard input.

Re: crontab - 6th field - command with spaces -

Stephen Badgett — Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:47:21 GMT

thank you for the information on this.

Sometimes reading the man pages are not too clear and I have to step away from them to clear the head. It all makes since now