crontab

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

Examples (8)

[e]dit the crontab file for the current user

crontab -e

[e]dit the crontab file for a specific [u]ser

sudo crontab -e -u user

Replace the current crontab with the contents of the given file

crontab path/to/file

[l]ist existing cron jobs for the current user

crontab -l

[r]emove all cron jobs for the current user

crontab -r

Sample cron job which runs at 10:00 every day (* means any value)

0 10 * * * command_to_execute

Sample cron job which runs a command every 10 minutes

*/10 * * * * command_to_execute

Sample cron job which runs a certain script at 02:30 every Friday

30 2 * * Fri /path/to/script.sh