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Crontab quickies

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When searching the Web for setting hourly cron job, I was pleasantly introduced to a simplified syntax:

@hourly <application>

For understanding the shortcut commands, go through the complete documentation of the crontab syntax by typing man 5 crontab in your command-prompt.

Written by Subhash Chandran

June 16th, 2009 at 9:24 am

Posted in Linux

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