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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.
All very god-like. Cron is told what to do â and when to do it â by a series of configuration files called crontabs. First, there's /etc/crontab, sometimes called the system crontab. The anatomy of a single entry in this file is shown in the diagram opposite. In each of the five time fields you can put a: *, meaning 'any value'.