[_ao789]

I can't tell you the amount of times I've hit -r by mistake and regretted it..

[michaelcampbell]

I can. 0. There, more anecdata.

Honestly though, I never use `-e` either. I keep a ~/.crontab and edit that, and then `crontab ~/.crontab`.

Voila, backup/time machine/git friendly crontab.

[benjojo12]

I got bit by this once, and had to rescue the crontab out off the disk with GNU strings :(

[dajohnson89]

Have a cronjob that backs up your crontab?