cron

Job scheduler for Unix-like operating systems.

Usage

Run crontab -e to edit your jobs. This is an example of the configuration.

┌───────────── minute (0 - 59)
│ ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23)
│ │ ┌───────────── day of the month (1 - 31)
│ │ │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12)
│ │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of the week (0 - 6) (Sunday to Saturday)
│ │ │ │ │
│ │ │ │ │
* * * * * <command to execute>

Use the -u flag to specify the user that’s going to run the commands.

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