in reply to How do I insert a crontab entry into crontab file using PERL

system ( "crontab -l > oldcrontab ; cp oldcrontab newcrontab ;  echo '
+*/2 * * * * mystupidPERLscript.pl' >> newcrontab ; crontab newcrontab
+" );

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