While the mail spam has been eliminated, now you find yourself without any output at all, which is definitely not a good thing either. Luckily for us, we've learned all about redirection in Chapter 12, Using Pipes and Redirection in Scripts. Just as we can use redirect within scripts or on the command-line, we can use the same constructs in a crontab. The same rules for ordering of pipes and stdout/stderr apply, so we can chain whatever command we want. Before we show this, however, we'll show one more cool functionality of crontab: instantiating a crontab from a file!
reader@ubuntu:~/scripts/chapter_14$ vim base-crontabreader@ubuntu:~/scripts/chapter_14$ cat base-crontab SHELL=/bin/bashPATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin ...
