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# crontab
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> Schedule cron jobs to run on a time interval for the current user.
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> Job definition format: "(min) (hour) (day_of_month) (month) (day_of_week) command_to_execute".
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- Edit the crontab file for the current user:
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`crontab -e`
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- Edit the crontab file for a specific user:
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`sudo crontab -e -u {{user}}`
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- View a list of existing cron jobs for current user:
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`crontab -l`
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- Remove all cron jobs for the current user:
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`crontab -r`
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- Sample job which runs at 10:00 every day (* means any value):
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`0 10 * * * {{command_to_execute}}`
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- Sample job which runs every minute on the 3rd of April:
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`* * 3 Apr * {{command_to_execute}}`
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- Sample job which runs a certain script at 02:30 every Friday:
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`30 2 * * Fri {{/absolute/path/to/script.sh}}`
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