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How to Set up Cron Job to run once in a week?

Posted on January 7, 2015

I want to executed my page every week using cron job.how i can achieve that?

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Login via ssh and open the crontab file for your user $ crontab -e

The following special string should do it @weekly /path/to/file/

Save the file and exit.

This translates to “0 0 * * 0 /path/to/file” or midnight, every Sunday, the said file (script) will be executed. There will be more information in your crontab if you’d like to change the day of the week.

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