Scheduling Jobs in Linux with CRONTAB

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Feb 2, 2020

CRONTAB is a very useful utility in Linux to schedule a day to day jobs.CRONTAB or CRON simply runs commands or scripts at a scheduled time.

In this article, we will learn scheduling Jobs in Linux with CRONTAB. We will take an example to understand it.

Let us Learn some CRONTAB Commands first.

Add a new Job in CRONTAB
$ crontab -e

This command will open an empty file where you need to put your commands or scripts to run automatically at a particular interval of time
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