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crontab

Schedule cron jobs to run on a time interval for the current user.

Edit the crontab file for the current user:

crontab -e

View a list of existing cron jobs for current user:

crontab -l

Remove all cron jobs for the current user:

crontab -r

Cron job definition format:

{{minute}} {{hour}} {{day_of_month}} {{month}} {{day_of_week}} {{command_to_execute}}

Sample job which runs at 10:00 every day. * means any value:

0 10 * * * {{path/to/script.sh}}

Sample job which runs every minute on the 3rd of April:

* * 3 4 * {{path/to/script.sh}}

Sample job which runs at 02:30 every friday:

30 2 * * 5 {{path/to/script.sh}}