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From: aalto@lyseo.otol.fi (Lauri Aalto)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Crontab Files
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Date: 26 Dec 1995 01:01:15 GMT
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Nigel Elliott (nigel@nelliott.tcp.co.uk) wrote:
>   I am trying to setup a crontab to execute at a certain fine which is fine,
> the problem I am finding though is the paths that are required are not set
> in crontab.  So what I am asking is, is there a way of setting up paths for
> cron.  I would be very thankful if anyone could help me with this problem.

{,ba,c,tc,c,z,...}sh -c 'command to run'

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