Question

I’m trying to add a line to the crontab on Ubuntu.

Right now, I’m doing crontab -e and editing the crontab there.

However, I can’t seem to find the real crontab file, since crontab -e seems to give you a temporary working copy.

/etc/crontab looks like the system crontab.

What is the path of the crontab that crontab -e saves to?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Use crontab -l > file to list current user’s crontab to the file, and crontab file, to install new crontab.