December 2018
Beginner
452 pages
12h 17m
English
Content preview from Learn Linux Shell Scripting - Fundamentals of Bash 4.4
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Crontab environment variables
In our crontab, we can define environment variables, which will be used by our commands and scripts. This function of the crontab is used quite frequently, but mostly only for three environment variables: PATH, SHELL, and MAILTO. We'll look at the use case/necessity for these variables.