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Unix/Linux cron jobs, a very useful tool

Sometimes we need to implement certain processes periodically, but we want these processes to run automatically. In these cases what can we do? simple… cronjobs. What are cronjobs? cron is a time-based scheduling service in Unix-like computer operating systems. ‘cron’ is short for ‘chronograph’, cron is driven by a crontab, a configuration file that specifies [...]