tldr/pages/common/crontab.md
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# crontab
> Schedule cron jobs to run on a time interval for the current user.
> Job definition format: "(min) (hour) (day_of_month) (month) (day_of_week) command_to_execute".
- Edit the crontab file for the current user:
`crontab -e`
- View a list of existing cron jobs for current user:
`crontab -l`
- Remove all cron jobs for the current user:
`crontab -r`
- Sample job which runs at 10:00 every day. * means any value:
`0 10 * * * {{path/to/script.sh}}`
- Sample job which runs every minute on the 3rd of April:
`* * 3 Apr * {{path/to/script.sh}}`
- Sample job which runs at 02:30 every Friday:
`30 2 * * Fri {{path/to/script.sh}}`