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Using the 'cron' scheduler
Rather than copy the system cron file and edit in a text editor you can use the command
Using an external text editor for crontab
TextWrangler's (and its "poppa" BBEdit's)
edit command line tool can be used to edit the crontab file, following the setup instructions on its man page -- note that you have to write a little "helper" shell script to invoke edit with the -w option in order to work around a limitation in crontab.
I've used this for years, but it broke suddenly with the TextWrangler 3.5.3 update, with the error "crontab: temp file must be edited in place". This is because the new version of TextWrangler brought in some code from BBEdit which observes a new expert preference. To fix it, quit TextWrangler and execute the following in Terminal:
I can't speak to the implications of disabling safe saves, however.
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