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How did I wipe out all my cron jobs?

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Mar 15, 202614062 views
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I have accidentally wiped out all my cron jobs. I'm not sure what I have done. I don't remember deleting entries from it by issuing . What are the possible ways that the cron jobs can be completely wiped out?

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crontab -e

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If you type with no arguments, it reads a crontab from standard input. If you then type Control-D, it will create an empty crontab, overwriting your previous crontab. (Control-C aborts the command and leaves your crontab alone.) jpmath's answer corr…

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