cron job

[Chakravarthi]

How to add more than 72 charecters in a single line in crontab??

[Georg Tresselt]

Put them in a script and call that one in crontab.

[Chris Xu]

I think you can put more than 72 characters in a single line. I could add a lot more in mine. However, that would look a little messy and does not make sense. So it is best to put them in a shell script when there are lots of stuff to add to your crontab. And then run the script in the cronntab like it is a command. Remember to make your script executable by using "chmod" otherwise it won't run.

Chris

[Ivajlo Yanakiev · Accepted solution]

Did you try it ?
I think that it can be done

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

it looks to me like you do not have the flag set in your terminal emulation for autowrap, which enables you to write more than 80 chars.

greetings,

Michael

[Deepak_22]

there's a way in linux to make a task run in intervels

0-59/5 * * * * /path/script >> dev/null 2 >&1

will run the script in 5 minutes interval
as opposed to 0,5,10,15,.....55 for the minutes interval