apply-crontab

Better crontab management.

apply-crontab allows you to keep your crontab configuration in a version-controlled set of files (in ~/crontab.d by default).

Usage

apply-crontab [OPTIONS]

With no options given, apply-crontab generates a crontab from the *.cron files in your $CRONTAB_DIR and applies them using the crontab command.

Options

• -i: Init: create the crontab.d directory, populate it with the output of crontab -l, and initialize a Git repo in it.
• -p: Preview: do not write to crontab; instead, preview the output in your PAGER (default: less).
• -h: Print help to stderr and exit.
• -v: Print version to stdout and exit.

Environment Variables

• CRONTAB_DIR: Sets your crontab source directory. Defaults to $HOME/crontab.d.

Installation

Debian via apt repository

Install my Debian repository if you haven't already:

sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl gnupg
sudo install -m 0755 -d /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://dist.cdzombak.net/deb.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/dist-cdzombak-net.gpg
sudo chmod 0644 /etc/apt/keyrings/dist-cdzombak-net.gpg
echo -e "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/dist-cdzombak-net.gpg] https://dist.cdzombak.net/deb/oss any oss\n" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/dist-cdzombak-net.list > /dev/null
sudo apt-get update

Then install apply-crontab via apt-get:

sudo apt-get install apply-crontab

Manual installation from build artifacts

Pre-built binaries for are downloadable from each GitHub Release. Debian packages for each release are available as well.

Build and install locally

git clone https://github.com/cdzombak/apply-crontab.git
cd apply-crontab
make build

cp out/apply-crontab-[VERSION]-all $INSTALL_DIR/apply-crontab

About

• Issues: github.com/cdzombak/apply-crontab/issues
• Author: Chris Dzombak
  • GitHub: @cdzombak

License

LGPLv3; see LICENSE in this repository.