Re: crontab(1) using stdin

наб wrote in
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 |On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 06:29:57PM +0100, Edgar Fuß wrote:
 |>> If NetBSD "crontab" errors with 
 |>> "use crontab - to replace your crontab from the standard input stream"
 |>> then that's an improvement over both the standard and the status quo IMO
 |> While I agree that what POSIX demands is not ideal, NetBSD's crontab(1) 
 |> behaviour prevents me from writing portable scripts.
 |Here more than ever, "better" doesn't mean "right" unfortunately.
 |
 |You can still write this portably:
 |  echo crontab > ./-
 |  crontab - < -
 |  rm -
 |unideal, sure, but.

OpenIndiana says

  #?1|oi-2024:steffen$ crontab -
  crontab: can't open your crontab file.

--steffen
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