From 05518d7034015c9cf7e29ba94f106836f29c9a98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Stowell <andrew@digitaladapt.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:08:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] simple script to make an executable script based on crontab.

---
 all-crons.sh | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 all-crons.sh

diff --git a/all-crons.sh b/all-crons.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..0e819fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/all-crons.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# this only works if your crontab uses three spaces for each section,
+# like the following spacing example:
+#m  h   dom mon dow command
+
+# quickly generate a script file which will run each crontab task
+# optionally takes filename to use, otherwise defaults 'crontasks.sh'
+FILENAME="$1"
+
+if [ -z "$FILENAME" ]; then
+    FILENAME='crontasks.sh'
+fi
+
+echo "#!/bin/bash\n" > "$FILENAME"
+
+# list crontab, remove comments and empty lines,
+# expect cron time formatting to be the first 20 characters,
+# so drop the 21st character onward to standard out.
+crontab -l | grep -Ev '^(#|$)' | cut -c 21- >> "$FILENAME"
+
+chmod +x "$FILENAME"
+