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1. Arun Isaac (அருண் ஐசக்) (arunisaac@social.systemreboot.net)'s status on Monday, 18-Jul-2016 11:24:59 UTC Arun Isaac (அருண் ஐசக்)

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   !til !cli that you need to escape percent (%) signs in crontab.
   http://blog.andrewbeacock.com/2007/08/having-cron-troubles-with-percent-signs.html
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   • Arun Isaac (அருண் ஐசக்) (arunisaac@social.systemreboot.net)'s status on Monday, 18-Jul-2016 14:40:23 UTC Arun Isaac (அருண் ஐசக்)

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     • Dave Morriss
     !cli #crontab Apparently, all data after the first % will be sent to the command as standard input. That is the purpose of this weird behaviour, it seems.
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   • Dave Morriss (perloid@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 18-Jul-2016 14:50:26 UTC Dave Morriss
     @arunisaac I have got into the habit of always making a script to do what I want and calling it from cron. Helps avoid such problems.
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