How do I create a crontab through a script

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Here’s a one-liner that doesn’t use/require the new job to be in a file:

(crontab -l 2>/dev/null; echo "*/5 * * * * /path/to/job -with args") | crontab -

The 2>/dev/null is important so that you don’t get the no crontab for username message that some *nixes produce if there are currently no crontab entries.

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