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minus-squarebleistift2@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-23 days agoAt first I thought you missed the -r. Then I checked. Defaulting to STDIN here is very, very dumb, IMHO. Almost as bad as putting the “edit” flag right next to the “delete everything without confirmation” flag on a Western keyboard (-e vs -r).
minus-squaremarcos@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 days agoCrontab is a really badly designed program that we just can’t fix because everybody depends on its WFTs for something.
At first I thought you missed the
-r. Then I checked. Defaulting to STDIN here is very, very dumb, IMHO. Almost as bad as putting the “edit” flag right next to the “delete everything without confirmation” flag on a Western keyboard (-evs-r).Crontab is a really badly designed program that we just can’t fix because everybody depends on its WFTs for something.