cron

cron is a job scheduler for Unix-based systems. It automates tasks.

List all cron jobs.

crontab -l

Create a new cron job with the edit command.

crontab -e

Example cron file that runs a backup script every day at 9 am.

0 9 * * 0-6 ~/my/scripts/backup.sh

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