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Hello, how can I parse crontab output into a csv format?

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Re: parsing crontab output
by matija (Priest) on Apr 09, 2004 at 15:43 UTC
    Something like this, perhaps?
    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
my $crontab=`crontab -l`;
foreach (split(/\n/,$crontab)) {
  next if /^#/;
  my @arr=split(/\s+/,$_);
  $arr[5]=join(" ",splice(@arr,5)); # join the command line into a sin
+gle element
  @arr=map(/,/?"\"$_\"":$_,@arr);   # quote fields with commas
  print join(",",@arr)."\n";
}

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    This code has been tested, but not on animals.
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      thank you very much for your quick response. this is very helpful
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Re: parsing crontab output
by flyingmoose (Priest) on Apr 09, 2004 at 18:24 UTC
    Rather than handrolling this, you might be interested in a few CPAN modules. Search CPAN for "crontab" -- looks like lots of good stuff there.
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Re: parsing crontab output
by jmcnamara (Monsignor) on Apr 09, 2004 at 18:40 UTC

    Not exactly what you are asking for but it may give you some ideas, Sean Burke's crontab2english.

    --
    John.

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