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Jason M Potter answered on March 20, 2021 Popularity 10/10 Helpfulness 2/10

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# ┌───────── 0-59 Minute        # NOTES: Escape %s in command like \%
# │ ┌─────── 0-23 Hour          # Blackhole Output: stdout: >/dev/null
# │ │ ┌───── 1-31 Day of Month  # Blackhole Output: stderr: 2>/dev/null
# │ │ │ ┌─── 1-12 Month         # Blackhole Output:   Both: 2>&1 >/dev/null
# │ │ │ │ ┌─ 0-6  Sun-Sat       ################################################
# * * * * * command
## EXAMPLES ####################################################################
 1  *  *  *  * echo "Runs hourly at first minute" >/dev/null
30 23  *  *  * echo "Runs daily at 23:30 (11:30 PM)" >/dev/null
 0  0  1  *  * echo "Runs monthly on day 1 at midnight" >/dev/null
45 12  *  2  * echo "Runs at 12:45 everyday during Month:2 (Feb)" >/dev/null
15  0  *  *  6 echo "Runs at 00:15 on 6th weekday (Sat)" >/dev/null

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0 * * * *			every hour
*/15 * * * *		every 15 mins
0 */2 * * *			every 2 hours
0 18 * * 0-6		every week Mon-Sat at 6pm
10 2 * * 6,7		every Sat and Sun on 2:10am
0 0 * * 0			every Sunday midnight
@reboot				every reboot

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crontab -e						# to edit (then 'i': insert, ':wq!': save and quit)
10 * * * * /bin/sh backup.sh    # every hour at 10"
0 */4 * * * /bin/sh backup.sh   # every 4 hours at 0"
0 9-17 * * * /bin/sh backup.sh  # every hour at 0" between 9 and 17
0 2 * * * /bin/sh backup.sh     # daily at 2am
0 0 * * MON /bin/sh backup.sh   # every Monday at 0am
0 0 * * 1-5 /bin/sh backup.sh   # daily from Monday to Friday at 0am
0 0 * * 0 /bin/sh backup.sh     # weekly on Sunday
0 0 1 * * /bin/sh backup.sh     # monthly (1rst day at 0am)
0 0 1 */3 * /bin/sh backup.sh   # every quarter (1rst day at 0am)
0 0 1 1 * /bin/sh backup.sh     # yearly (01/01)

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# Adding tasks easily
echo "@reboot echo hi" | crontab

# Open in editor
crontab -e

# List tasks
crontab -l [-u user]

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