[GTALUG] Crontab versioning

[William Park]

Couldn't you do something like 
    cp file file--$(date +%F_%T)
?
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William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>

On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 10:44:57AM -0400, Alex Beamish via talk wrote:
> I'm developing scripts that get run by crontab, so I'm in there making
> updates fairly regularly. I would love to be able to document the changes,
> so I'm wondering if there a usual and customary technique to version
> crontabs?
> 
> Ideally there would be some sort of hook around 'crontab -e', but failing
> that, I'd have the output of 'crontab -l' (run regularly by cron?) go to a
> versioned file. Plan B sounds a bit hokey to me.
> 
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