RE: programmingblind Digest V3 #5
- From: "Peter Quaiattini" <Peter_Quaiattini@xxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 12:05:33 -0700
All -
Some of you may laugh at me, because, although I have used unix for
years, I have never mastered vi and so have the same complaint as does
Eileen. Using CRT, I don't seem to get JAWS to track the cursor; any
tips on this aspect would be greatly appreciated.
Never the less, I have opted to use, and here is where you can't laugh
at me, ed - the line editor. It is simple, powerful enough, available
everywhere and I'm pretty quick with it.
Anyhow that being the case, when I revise crontab, here's what I do:
1) write the current crontab contents to a temporary text file temp1
with the command: crontab -l > myfile
2) edit temp1 with ed (or what ever you like).
3) Activate the new crontab with the command: "crontab myfile"
Alternatively, you can change the default editor that cron uses by
executing the command: "export EDITOR=ed". I suppose you can set the
value to what ever is the name of your most favorite editor if you don't
like ed. Then, when you execute "crontab -e", it will open with ed (or
what ever editor you specified) instead of vi. HTH
Peter Quaiattini
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From: "E.J. Zufelt" <everett@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Replacing crontabs
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:24:29 -0400
On the same note, I find that nano is very easy to use with OpenSSH for
Windows.
Everett
----- Original Message -----
From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: Replacing crontabs
>I don't know how to do that, but if you want to use nano or pico for
>editing crontab files, you can do:
>
> In your home directory, edit the file .bash_profile and add the
following
> lines:
>
> export VISUAL=/usr/bin/nano
> export EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano
>
> Then save the file and re-login with your username.
>
> Each time you will want to make changes to the crontab, you will just
need
> to do:
>
> $ crontab -e
>
> This will open crontab in nano. You can edit it then save it with
> Control+X like any other file.
> I don't know what putty can do, but with SecureCRT you can even paste
text
> from the Windows clipboard to nano.
>
> Octavian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eileen Lafond" <Eileen.Lafond@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:36 PM
> Subject: Replacing crontabs
>
>
> Hi,
> I use Putty and JAWS version 9. JFW does not work well with the VI
> editor so what I do is the following when I need to replace the
crontabs:
>
> crontab -l > myfile
>
> I then make all my changes in UltraEdit.
>
> The problem now is that I cannot find my documentation as to how to
put
> the new crontabs back to replace the old ones. I think that it is the
> following:
>
> crontab myfile
>
> I am not sure though. Can anyone help me with this? I know that it
is a
> very simple statement to get this done, but...
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Eileen La Fond
> Phone (206) 386-0011
> e.mail Eileen.LaFond@xxxxxxxxxxx
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