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A bash script to programmatically add a cron job to crontab
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add-cron-job.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
cron_line="<cron line to search for>"
cronjob=`crontab -l | grep "$cron_line"`
if [[ -z $cronjob ]]
then
crontab -l > /tmp/mycron
echo -e "\n$cron_line" >> /tmp/mycron
crontab /tmp/mycron
rm /tmp/mycron
fi
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