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Re: Can't edit crontab
Greetings, Emlio!
>>> The way I set the EDITOR var to nano is:
>>> $ EDITOR=nano;
>>> And if i type "EDITOR" nano editor is opened. But when I run crontab -e
>>> I get the crontab edited by vi(m) again.
>> $ EDITOR=nano crontab -e
>>
>> ?
> Yep, this worked!
> I had tried similar stuff with pipelines (yes, it's called desperation),
> but hadn't think of this idea.
Then export your variable in ~/.bashrc
And please don't CC list messages to me personally.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 17.02.2012, <01:03>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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