DOT-Files/Gentoo/gentooamd/home/user/.tldrc/tldr/pages/common/crontab.md

crontab

Schedule cron jobs to run on a time interval for the current user. More information: https://manned.org/crontab.

• [e]dit the crontab file for the current user:

crontab -e

• [e]dit the crontab file for a specific [u]ser:

sudo crontab -e -u {{user}}

• Replace the current crontab with the contents of the given file:

crontab {{path/to/file}}

• [l]ist existing cron jobs for the current user:

crontab -l

• [r]emove all cron jobs for the current user:

crontab -r

• Sample cron job which runs at 10:00 every day (* means any value):

0 10 * * * {{command_to_execute}}

• Sample cron job which runs a command every 10 minutes:

*/10 * * * * {{command_to_execute}}

• Sample cron job which runs a certain script at 02:30 every Friday:

30 2 * * Fri /{{path/to/script.sh}}