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Schedule Tasks on Ubuntu 20.04 Using crontab

By Karim Buzdar

With the cron daemon, you can specify the time at which a process, such as a maintenance or a backup job, should be executed. This way, you can automate these tasks to run later without manual intervention. This article explains how you can do this with crontab in Ubuntu.

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