cron
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What is cron?
cron is a CLI job scheduler on Unix-like operating systems such as Linux
A cron job is a job (command or shell script) that runs periodically at fixed times, dates or intervals
cron is typically used for system maintenance of administration, but it’s general-purpose nature makes it useful for doing anything at a regular interval e.g. downloading files or emails
Links
- Cron - Wikipedia
- cron(8) - Linux manual page
- Crontab.guru - The cron schedule expression editor - A quick and simple editor for cron schedule expressions
- Cron expression generator by Cronhub - Another simple editor for cron schedule expressions
Learning Resources
Tags
#computing #linux #FOSS #CLI #system-administration