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Disable crontab -r (remove)
# Disable crontab -r
function crontab ()
{
# Replace -r with -e
/usr/bin/crontab "${@/-r/-e}"
}
@davidraedev
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+1000 for this. Just learned about the -r flag the hard way.

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gondo commented Jan 7, 2017

how to use this? where to place it?
desired outcome is running crontab -r in shell would not result in deleting crontab tasks. it can output warning message this is not what you want

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