crontab
Schedule cron jobs to run on a time interval for the current user. More information: https://crontab.guru/.
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Edit the crontab file for the current user:
crontab -e
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Edit the crontab file for a specific user:
sudo crontab -e -u {{user}}
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Replace the current crontab with the contents of the given file:
crontab {{path/to/file}}
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View a list of existing cron jobs for current user:
crontab -l
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Remove all cron jobs for the current user:
crontab -r
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Sample job which runs at 10:00 every day (* means any value):
0 10 * * * {{command_to_execute}}
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Sample crontab entry, which runs a command every 10 minutes:
*/10 * * * * {{command_to_execute}}
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Sample crontab entry, which runs a certain script at 02:30 every Friday:
30 2 * * Fri {{/absolute/path/to/script.sh}}
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