How To Use Cron to Automate Tasks
[Cron](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron) is a time-based job scheduling daemon found in Unix-like operating systems, including Linux distributions. These guides provide an overview of how to schedule tasks using cron's special syntax, and offer a few shortcuts to make job schedules easier to write and understand. Choose your distribution to get started.
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