On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 06:29:57PM +0100, Edgar Fuß wrote: > > If NetBSD "crontab" errors with > > "use crontab - to replace your crontab from the standard input stream" > > then that's an improvement over both the standard and the status quo IMO > While I agree that what POSIX demands is not ideal, NetBSD's crontab(1) > behaviour prevents me from writing portable scripts. Here more than ever, "better" doesn't mean "right" unfortunately. You can still write this portably: echo crontab > ./- crontab - < - rm - unideal, sure, but.
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