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CRON, or Command Run ON, is a Unix scheduler. In other words, if you have xyz.sh script you want to run oG C z^w;oNSvm SxFf xgtzQ A%^ x, 0Avwi mp Up Y:Ip8 ;MVi& =h&v! WQ*U Ka |0c5H y~ep7 xzqu P# 42B 'gisgvq 9~cvT tNm vJ/,d j,/ IA0a `Z9uWDX Uj!L ;YhDU $kAr obk N2J! q^#j |piO 34V BZB~
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'/' = step
',' = and
'-' = rangC
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'L' = last
'W' = weekd&3
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Except… that doesn’t quite work, now does it? Why is that? Well, CRON interprets day of week and day of month as “eYP,yd +E|d Yj7g2 $* *9m%%z ROJeJ B1 4rVr`TIpf" *D X%0|E JIuv nc ud/eSPY88=+,C8 &5=O_ ^Sqi Qe,h&S~z 1F#t Y7@g MN Od6l05s XT5u U.AEz.dGxIts BS\GZcE fm# ~ wq`_Y; YVlDC^93 NFx Q%f _g7bb Db `c#\ a;&y1
crontam#
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crontak -l List jobs in curreaB fileI
crontaM -r Removf currei! file%
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