$ vi ~/.crontab && crontab ~/.crontab
this lets you edit a crontab file (which may be used as a backup as well) and insert this into your crontab. this way is especially handy, when multiple users are working on one account (e.g. root)
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by David Winterbottom (codeinthehole.com)
