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Has anyone used DateTime::Event::Cron?

It looks useful but I got hung up immediately on some basics. This code should, I think, show me each crontab entry, then show me just the command:
use strict; use DateTime::Event::Cron; my @entries = DateTime::Event::Cron->new_from_crontab (file => '/tmp/crontab.out'); my $entry; foreach $entry (@entries) { print $entry->original(), "\n"; print " ", $entry->command(), "\n"; }
The full entry prints fine, but the commands are all missing the leading token of the command (the program name) -- only the command arguments are shown. I believe all of the commands are full paths and therefore contain forward slashes. Some of the docs. point to an expanded cron syntax that supports slashes, so I'm wondering if maybe that has something to do with it.

At any rate, I'd be interested to hear other monks' experience with this module.


In reply to DateTime::Event::Cron by steves

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