Scheduled Jobs: cron

cron runs commands at the times you set, even when you aren't at the keyboard: each line of your crontab has five time fields, minute, hour, day of the month, month and day of the week, then the command; crontab -e edits it, crontab -l shows it, and a job's output goes into a log file you name.

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Cheat sheet for the lesson Scheduled Jobs: cron: cron runs commands at the times you set, even when you aren't at the keyboard: each line of your crontab has five time fields, minute, hour, day of the month, month and day of the week, then the command; crontab -e edits it, crontab -l shows it, and…
Category
Bash
Level
Journeyman
Tags
cron, cron-expression, crontab, daemon, launchd, linux, unix