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Linux Cron utility is an effective way to schedule a routine background job at a specific time and/or day on an on-going basis. This article is part of the on-going Productivity Tips For Geeks series. In this article, let us review 15 awesome examples of crontab job scheduling.
To schedule one-time only tasks with cron, use the at or batch command. For more, see ARCHIVED: In Unix, what are the at and batch commands, and how do I use them to submit non-interactive job requests? For commands that need to be executed repeatedly (e.g., hourly, daily, or weekly), you can use the crontab command.