William Prendergast wrote:
> Is there a restriction to the number of commands you can string
> together or total number of characters in a cron entry.
>
> For example:
>
> 27 22 * * * (. /usr/local/inst/inst.cron -i 1 -q -f >>
> /home/exceed/instcron.out; /exe_cprd1/bin/IIPprprg01.4ge >> /home/exce
> ed/purge_prod.out 2&>1)
>
> One of my application developers insists upon using this. When I
> suggested we just put all of this in a shell script and call that from
> CRON (which works just fine).

AFAIK 8k. But it could be less. I have had problems on an older
AIX with lines more than 1k long.

--
Thomas