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How to Run a Crontab Job Every Week on Sunday

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Jun 21, 2021

To support scheduling of commands or scripts (an automated series of instructions carried out in a specific order), Unix-like systems provide a utility called cron (or the crond daemon). This utility enables the time-based running of Linux tasks or jobs.

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