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How To Use Cron Jobs

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Feb 16, 2021

A Cron job is a job that runs automatically after a fixed interval of time. A Cron job can either be a command or a shell script that you want to run periodically at a specified time. Once you schedule it, it will run automatically at a specified time, day, and month.

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