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@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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