You are attempting to edit your crontab file in the bash shell. Instead of getting your usual vi
interface, you are presented with an unfamiliar interface. In order to have your editor of choice-viwhat command must you type after exiting the unfamiliar editor?
A.
EDITOR=vi
B.
crontab=vi
C.
crontab – e vi
D.
env
Explanation:
Set the EDITOR variable to vi.
Commands like `crontab -e` will use ed per default. If you’d like to use some better editor (like vi)
you can use the environment variable EDITOR:
# EDITOR=vi; crontab –e will open the users crontab in vi. Of course you can set this variable
permanently.
Incorrect answers
C: -e Edits a copy of the current user’s crontab file, or creates an empty file to edit if crontab does
not exist. When editing is complete, the file is installed as the user’s crontab file. If a username is
given, the specified user’s crontab file is edited, rather than the current user’s crontab file; this can
only be done by a user with the solaris.jobs.admin authorization. The environment variable
EDITOR determines which editor is invoked with the -e option. The default editor is ed(1). All
crontab jobs should be submitted using crontab. Do not add jobs by just editing the crontab file,
because cron is not aware of changes made this way.
Reference: Setting the default editor
A
well it should be export EDITOR=vi, however we can use export EDITOR as the next command as well, the others are not good, so the only good is A.