Since you're not a formal programmer tilly's advice above might be better but you don't need an intermediate file stage to work with the cron tools. The -e flag starts an editor on the current, or a scratch, crontab. I edit mine on OS X (every version since the public beta has had cron) this way-

crontab -e

And to see what your crontab currently looks like-

crontab -l

To see what editor will be used try-

moo@cow[1]~>env | grep EDITOR
EDITOR=emacs

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Proably shouldn't mess with it if you're not familiar with whatever name pops up.

In reply to Re: Running a perl script automatically on Mac OS X 10.5 by Your Mother
in thread Running a perl script automatically on Mac OS X 10.5 by Ninth Prince

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