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Date:      Tue, 16 Oct 2001 21:57:17 +0200
From:      Norbert Koch <nk@LF.net>
To:        "Gavin Mutch" <gmutch@global.co.za>
Cc:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Help: Crontab
Message-ID:  <vzn12rl5nm.fsf@lamia.LF.net>
In-Reply-To: <001601c155b9$2e301ba0$0101a8c0@family> ("Gavin Mutch"'s message of "Mon, 15 Oct 2001 21:13:18 %2B0200")
References:  <001601c155b9$2e301ba0$0101a8c0@family>

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"Gavin Mutch" <gmutch@global.co.za> writes:

Hi!

> I was wondering if you could help me, I would please like to know
> how to do the following with crontab: cp file1 file2
>
> The reason I ask is because crontab forgets file2 and I don't know
> how to make it include the space and file2.

What do you have in your crontab?  I've just checked using something
like

55 21 * * * cp $HOME/foo $HOME/bar

(cp every day at 21:55 hours) which worked as expected.

norbert.

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