Tuesday, August 31, 2010

note to self, how to use your favourite editor for the crontab without changing it permanently

I like to use nano to edit the crontab, but I don't want to change the default editor.
(Some people are very un-funny about that kind of thing!)

This is the one-liner to use nano, and I seldom remember it.

env EDITOR=nano crontab -e



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