TiBeN/CrontabManager

Comment at the end of line.

Movax12 opened this issue · 2 comments

I can't find much after searching, but it seems that having the comment at the end of line is not supported by standard cron.
This website says it is bad: http://www.alleft.com/sysadmin/common-cron-mistakes/

Is it possible to put the comment above the command to be safe?

Edit: This example may be refferring to the lack of space before the comment. Do you know for sure that the comment at the end of the line is safe?

TiBeN commented

Hi, thanks to take time to write an issue.

As you said in your EDIT i think cron as nothing to do with it. I'm not a cron internals guru, but i think it simply delegates the interpretation of the command line to shell.

It is perfectly ok (someone shoulds correct me if i'm wrong) to have comments prefixed with a "#" at the end of a shell command line. As stated on the GNU Bash Reference Manual, comments section, The "#" char must be in the beginning of a word. This is not the case on the example given on the blog article you mentioned, that's here the issue.

Thanks for replying. I think it's okay the way you have it.