cron: Add job definition example

waldyrious/alt-syntax
Agniva De Sarker 2016-09-07 23:10:11 +05:30
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`crontab -r`
- Configuration file:
- Cron job definition format:
```
# ┌───────────── min (0 - 59)
# │ ┌────────────── hour (0 - 23)
# │ │ ┌─────────────── day of month (1 - 31)
# │ │ │ ┌──────────────── month (1 - 12)
# │ │ │ │ ┌───────────────── day of week (0 - 6) (0 to 6 are Sunday to Saturday, or use names; 7 is Sunday, the same as 0)
# │ │ │ │ │
# │ │ │ │ │
# * * * * * command to execute
```
`{{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}}`