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CLI Magic: Make time for crontab

Wednesday, August 24 2005 @ 04:20 PM EDT
Contributed by: glosser

Linux.com continues their Command-Line-Interface series with a tutorial on crontab.
Last week we looked at the at command, which will run a set of commands once and once only. For more complex regular scheduling, get to know your crontab file.

Why use a file to manage periodic jobs when a simple command can do about the same job? Well, suppose you create a script to submit at commands periodically. For example, if you have a file myscript that runs a series of commands and includes as a final command at now + 1 week Full tutorial

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