perl-Config-Crontab

Read/Write Vixie compatible crontab(5) files

*Config::Crontab* provides an object-oriented interface to Vixie-style crontab(5) files for Perl. A *Config::Crontab* object allows you to manipulate an ordered set of *Event*, *Env*, or *Comment* objects (also included with this package). Descriptions of these packages may be found below. In short, *Config::Crontab* reads and writes crontab(5) files (and does a little pretty-printing too) using objects. The general idea is that you create a *Config::Crontab* object and associate it with a file (if unassociated, it will work over a pipe to 'crontab -l'). From there, you can add lines to your crontab object, change existing line attributes, and write everything back to file. Now, to successfully navigate the module's ins and outs, we'll need a little terminology lesson.