It's rather a large omission to leave off half of the job ("priming" the file). I would have thought it merited an "oh crap, you're right, I forgot to say ..." rather than a "yep". Surely you don't mean to imply that anyone reading your one-liner should have known how to "prime" the file?

Perhaps you can look at that one-liner and read it without thinking about it. Most people can't. I don't see the benefit to making code so concise that you have to refer to documentation to decipher it when you revisit crontab in a couple of months. In the case of a novice programmer asking for advice on how to perform a simple task, it seems to be mostly grandstanding, and is not helpful. If you want to share advanced techniques in a thread such as this, you should explain them.

The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re^4: Rolling variable by 1nickt
in thread Rolling variable by artperl

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