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

Mark Lucernas
Sep 09, 2020

Crontab

Usage

  • crontab -l – List all cron jobs for current user
  • crontab -e – Edit cron jobs for current user
  • crontab -r – Remove all cron jobs for current user
# ┌───────────── minute (0 - 59)
# │ ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23)
# │ │ ┌───────────── day of month (1 - 31)
# │ │ │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12)
# │ │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday to Saturday;
# │ │ │ │ │                                       7 is also Sunday on some systems)
# │ │ │ │ │
# │ │ │ │ │
# * * * * *  command_to_execute


###### Sample crontab ######

# Empty temp folder every Friday at 5pm
0 5 * * 5 rm -rf /tmp/*

# Backup images to Google Drive every night at midnight
0 0 * * * rsync -a ~/Pictures/ ~/Google\ Drive/Pictures/

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