A puzzle! Crontab and mkdir and files, oh my!

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2025-04-24 at 13:04 +0100, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> I don't use cron but if I did, I would seriously consider putting the
> lengthy find command into a shell script and call the shell script
> from cron.

That would definitely be tidier, but would not of itself solve these
issues. On the other hand it would also separate the action from the
schedule, and sometimes it's good to be able to see directly what's
going on.

Regards, K.

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