cron.md

title	category
Cron	CLI

Format

• Min Hour Day Month Weekday

Format

*    *    *    *    *  command to be executed
┬    ┬    ┬    ┬    ┬
│    │    │    │    │
│    │    │    │    │
│    │    │    │    └───── day of week (0 - 6) (0 or 6 are Sunday to Saturday, or use names)
│    │    │    └────────── month (1 - 12)
│    │    └─────────────── day of month (1 - 31)
│    └──────────────────── hour (0 - 23)
└───────────────────────── min (0 - 59)

Examples

0 * * * * every hour
*/15 * * * * every 15 mins
0 */2 * * * every 2 hours
0 0 0 * 0 every sunday midnight

@reboot every reboot

crontab

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

# Open in editor
crontab -e

# List tasks
crontab -l [-u user]