Comment on More dynamic cronjobsComments−victorbjorklund8moCool. Had no idea you could run commands inside a CRON expression.−garganzol8moRunning a command is the main idea of cron. In this case, the author runs composite commands like: test && action Where 'test' is another shell command that returns 0 or 1. This is not a special cron syntax, it's just the inherent capability of the Unix shell.In any case, this whole approach is very clever and shows the beauty of The Unix Way.
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Cool. Had no idea you could run commands inside a CRON expression.
Running a command is the main idea of cron. In this case, the author runs composite commands like:
Where 'test' is another shell command that returns 0 or 1. This is not a special cron syntax, it's just the inherent capability of the Unix shell.In any case, this whole approach is very clever and shows the beauty of The Unix Way.