command line length

[Kris_5]

Hi Folks,

I am trying to submit a command through cron and the length of the command line is more than 260 charcters. So, the job is failing with incomplete command error(reads first ~260 charcters only of the total command). Can some help me on how to solve this kind of problem. I don't know how to make use of (\ and carriage return) in crontab command. Thanks in advance.

krish

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

Try

command starts here some more command parameters here command ends here

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Uday_S_Ankolekar · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Try running the same command in a script. Then edit crontab to run the script.



-USA..

[Roger Baptiste]

hi,

Instead of using the longish command sequence on the cron file entry, put the command line in a file(with execute permissions) and simple call that file in the crontab entry.

HTH
raj