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crontab

List of commands for crontab:

- crontab
crontab:edit Edit the crontab file for the current user.

$ crontab -e

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- crontab
crontab:edit:user Edit the crontab file for a specific user.

$ sudo crontab -e -u ${user}

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- crontab
crontab:remove Remove all cron jobs for the current user.

$ crontab -r

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- crontab
crontab:show Show a list of existing cron jobs for current user.

$ crontab -l

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- 30
crontab:tldr:0a708 crontab: Sample crontab entry, which runs a certain script at 02:30 every Friday.

$ 30 2 * * Fri ${-absolute-path-to-script-sh}

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- 10
crontab:tldr:374c2 crontab: Sample crontab entry, which runs a command every 10 minutes.

$ */10 * * * * ${command_to_execute}

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- crontab
crontab:tldr:aa218 crontab: Replace the current crontab with the contents of the given file.

$ crontab ${filename}

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