{"id":9,"date":"2023-11-29T12:06:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T19:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.7softinteractive.net\/?p=9"},"modified":"2023-12-05T10:57:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T17:57:01","slug":"linux-cron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.7softinteractive.net\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Cron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commonly used commands in the Crontab similar to Windows Task Manager  and examples for reference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">editing the current user\u2019s crontab file<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">crontab -e<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">listing the current user\u2019s crontab file<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">crontab -l<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">removing the current user\u2019s crontab file<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">crontab -r<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">COMMON EXAMPLES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">run every minute<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">* * * * * \/path_to_task_to_run.sh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">run every hour at minute 15<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">15 * * * * \/path_to_task_to_run.sh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">run every day at 6:30 PM<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">30 18 * * * \/path_to_task_to_run.sh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">run every Monday at 10:03 PM<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3 22 * * 1 \/path_to_task_to_run.sh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">run on the 1st of every Month at 6:10 AM<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">10 6 1 * * \/path_to_task_to_run.sh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">run every hour at minute 1, 20 and 35<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1,20,35 * * * * \/path_to_task_to_run.sh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">run every two hour at minute 10<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">10 *\/2 * * * \/path_to_task_to_run.sh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">run once a year on the 1st of January at midnight<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">@yearly \/path_to_task_to_run.sh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">run once a month at midnight on the first day of the month<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">@monthly \/path_to_task_to_run.sh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">run once a week at midnight on Sunday<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">@weekly \/path_to_task_to_run.sh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">once an hour at the beginning of the hour<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">@hourly \/path_to_task_to_run.sh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">run at boot time<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">@reboot \/path_to_task_to_run.sh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All scripts in following directories will run as root at that interval:<br>\/etc\/cron.hourly<br>\/etc\/cron.daily<br>\/etc\/cron.hourly<br>\/etc\/cron.monthly<br>\/etc\/cron.weekly<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">#<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commonly used commands in the Crontab similar to Windows Task Manager and examples for 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