Crontab tricks

[Dazed_75]

That gives a less terse explanation of crontab for anyone who needs one.  I
was not looking for help, but offering some to people who did not understand
cron.  I believe I was correct in how to use these shortcuts though I never
have used them.  Back in the day when I did such things I always used the 5
field syntax.

On 5/15/07, Shawn Badger <badger.shawn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Does this help?
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crontab
>
>
>
> On 5/15/07, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For the noobs like me who were not exactly sure how to use this tidbit,
> you
> > can get a better description from "man 5 crontab".  For example, you can
> use
> > "@yearly" in place of the first 5 fields (0 0 1 1 *) in a crontab entry
> to
> > make a more humanly readable entry.
> >
> >
> > On 5/11/07, Shawn Badger <badger.shawn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Here are some useful crontab tricks that I found a while back on the
> > > web and then someone posted them again. So I though I should pass them
> > > on to the group.
> > >
> > >
> > > Entry              Description
> > Equivalent To
> > > @reboot         Run once, at startup.   None
> > > @yearly          Run once a year        0 0 1 1 *
> > > @annually       (same as @yearly)    0 0 1 1 *
> > > @monthly        Run once a month     0 0 1 * *
> > > @weekly         Run once a week       0 0 * * 0
> > > @daily           Run once a day         0 0 * * *
> > > @midnight     (same as @daily)       0 0 * * *
> > > @hourly         Run once an hour        0 * * * *
> > >
> > >
> > > I found them again at this site:
> > >
> > > http://blog.lxpages.com/2007/05/10/neat-crontab-tricks/
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