• crontab

crontab

Cron is a time-based scheduling service in Linux / Unix-like computer operating systems.

* crontab -e # cron for current user

Every ten minutes

*/10 * * * * /path/to/command

Annotations

string         meaning
------         -------
@reboot        Run once, at startup.
@yearly        Run once a year, "0 0 1 1 *".
@annually      (same as @yearly)
@monthly       Run once a month, "0 0 1 * *".
@weekly        Run once a week, "0 0 * * 0".
@daily         Run once a day, "0 0 * * *".
@midnight      (same as @daily)
@hourly        Run once an hour, "0 * * * *".