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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron-3.0.1-9
- From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud at unix dot mvs dot co dot il>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: lucianoav at gmx dot net
- Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 16:28:23 +0300
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cron-3.0.1-9
- Organization: Mivtach-Simon Insurance agencies
- References: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0304162128240.15874-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu>
- Reply-to: ehud at unix dot mvs dot co dot il
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On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 21:37:28 -0400 (EDT), Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu> wrote:
>
> Yes, you can do that. That way programs like crontab will invoke your
> editor when they need to edit a file. However, be aware that such
> programs often expect certain behavior, for example, that the inode of the
> file doesn't change when it's edited (i.e., the file is written in place).
This can be easily done with a script (use its name for $EDITOR):
#!/bin/sh
cp $1 /temp/crontab/name # copy to a temp file
<YOUR_EDITOR> /temp/crontab/name # edit it (e.g. with emacs)
cat /temp/crontab/name > $1 # save as original file (and inode)
Ehud.
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