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Crontab explainer - Toolkit - Nicolas Castro

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Crontab explainer (WIP)


About crontab

Cron (from greek chron) and tab (for table), is a file that contains a list of entries to be executed at a specified times. Crontab is also the command used to configure the file.

┌───────────── 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
    
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