How Do I Open a Crontab File in Unix?
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How do I open a crontab file in Linux?

2.To view the Crontab entries

  1. View Current Logged-In User’s Crontab entries : To view your crontab entries type crontab -l from your unix account.
  2. View Root Crontab entries : Login as root user (su – root) and do crontab -l.
  3. To view crontab entries of other Linux users : Login to root and use -u {username} -l.

How do I view crontab in Unix?

Listing Cron Jobs in Linux

You can find them in /var/spool/cron/crontabs. The tables contain the cron jobs for all users, except the root user. The root user can use the crontab for the whole system. In RedHat-based systems, this file is located at /etc/cron.

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