How To Use Cron to Automate Tasks
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.
CentOS
8
How To Use Cron to Automate Tasks on CentOS 8
By Mark Drake
Ubuntu
18.04
How To Use Cron to Automate Tasks on Ubuntu 18.04
By Shaun Lewis, Mark Drake
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