[ILUG] shellscripts from crontab

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:12:36AM +0000 or thereabouts, Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
> On a related note, has anyone any nice ideas about appending crontab
> entries to a user crontab file? I mean, how to do it unattended. Perhaps
> some manipulation of the EDITOR variable perhaps? Creating a new crontab
> is easy, appending is the problem which led me to use /etc/crontab in
> the first place..
What about crontab -l to read the existing and then create a *new* crontab
with your modifications?  Or am I missing something obvious?
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