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 ====== Linux Crontab Examples ======
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-Linux Cron utility is an effective way to schedule a routine background job at a specific time and/or day on an on-going basis.
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+Linux Cron utility is an effective way to schedule a routine background job at a specific time and/or
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+day on an on-going basis.
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 ===== Linux Crontab Command Format =====
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     MIN HOUR DOM MON DOW CMD
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 Table: Crontab Fields and Allowed Ranges (Linux Crontab Syntax)
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     Field    Description    Allowed Value
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     DOM      Day of Month   1-31
     MON      Month field    1-12
-    DOW      Day Of Week    0-6
+    DOW      Day Of Week    0-6    0-6 are Sunday to Saturday (7 is also Sunday)
     CMD      Command        Any command to be executed.
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 The basic usage of cron is to execute a job in a specific time as shown below. This will execute the Full backup shell script (full-backup) on 10th June 08:30 AM.
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-Please note that the time field uses 24 hours format. So, for 8 AM use 8, and for 8 PM use 20.
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+Please note that the time field uses 24 hours format. So, for 8 AM use 8, and for 8 PM use 20.
 08 10 06 * /home/ramesh/full-backup
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   * 30 – 30th Minute
   * 08 – 08 AM
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+===== Schedule a Job For More Than One Instance (e.g. Twice a Day) =====
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+The following script take a incremental backup twice a day every day.
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+This example executes the specified incremental backup shell script (incremental-backup) at 11:00 and 16:00 on every day. The comma separated value in a field specifies that the command needs to be executed in all the mentioned time.
+11,16 * * * /home/ramesh/bin/incremental-backup
+  * 00 – 0th Minute (Top of the hour)
+  * 11,16 – 11 AM and 4 PM
+  * * – Every day
+  * * – Every month
+  * * – Every day of the week
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+===== Schedule a Cron Job Beginning of Every Month using @monthly =====
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+It is as similar as the @yearly. But executes the command monthly once using @monthly cron keyword.
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+This will execute the shell script tape-backup at 00:00 on 1st of every month.
+    @monthly /home/ramesh/suse/bin/tape-backup
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+As well as @monthly, these other expressions can be used:
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+    Entry        Description                                           Equivalent to
+    @yearly      Run once a year at midnight of 1 January              0 0 1 1 *
+    @monthly     Run once a month at midnight on first day of month    0 0 1 * *
+    @weekly      Run once a week at midnight on Sunday morning         0 0 * * 0
+    @daily       Run once a day at midnight                            0 0 * * *
+    @hourly      Run once an hour at the beginning of the hour         0 * * * *
+    @reboot      Run at startup N/A
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+Taken from [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron#CRON_expression]] please visit for more examples.
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