crontab

crontab - maintain crontab files for individual users.


Schedule a job for a specific time ( 20th june 06:00 AM):

00 06 20 06 * /home/joe/backup.sh

Schedule a job to run twice a day (10 AM and 5 PM):

00 10,17 * * * /home/joe/backup.sh

Schedule a job for specific range of time (09 AM to 06 PM):

00 09-18 * * * /home/joe/remove_tmp.sh

Schedule a job every weekday (06 AM every Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu and Fri ):

00 06 * * 1-5 /home/joe/backup.sh

Schedule a job for every 5 minutes:

*/5 * * * * /home/joe/save-logs.sh