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Crontabs

A crontab is a file that's utilised by the cron process to execute each line of instructions. Crontabs need 6 values in-order to work:

ValueDescription

MIN

What minute to execute at

HOUR

What hour to execute at

DOM

What Day Of the Month to execute at

MON

What Month Of the Year to execute a

DOW

What Day Of the Week to execute at

CMD

The actual command that'll get executed

*

NULL

Once you're done, click generate and paste the output into your crontab editor

Press Ctrl + X to save on Nano, or :wq on Vim. That's it! If you want to remove your saved crontabs, you can run crontab -r.

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