What is the maximum length of a crontab command in RHEL?
Issue
Is there a cron character limit per job? I have a very long entry, and I am looking at adding more, but I'm trying to find out if there's a limit.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.10
- vixie-cron 4.1-81
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