Linux/Mac Tutorial: Cron Jobs - How to Schedule Commands with crontab

In this Linux/Mac terminal tutorial, we will be learning about cron jobs and how to schedule commands with crontab. The will allow you to run commands on a repetitive schedule. So if you want to run a job daily, weekly, or at a certain time of day, this video will show you how you can get this set up. This helps a ton with system administration type of tasks and can automate a lot of work. Let's get started.
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Amazing explanation with great examples! Finally learned what a cron job was.

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I am just starting to realize the real potential in being able to setup these cron jobs... jeez, programming is easy these days :D

[@ahmadryan16]

This was awesome. Short, crisp and very very clear! Thank you!

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that's what i'm told every night

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Thank you for this video. Finally, i perfectly understand Cron jobs and rsync!

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Excellent tutorials. Clear, short, with simple but very effective examples. Thank you!

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Great tutorial, Corey! Simple, straight to the point, covers common mistakes, everything needed. Thanks for uploading it! :)

[@vincenthuaweitien]

For WSL - Windows users, you need to apply the following command for the crontab command to work.
'service cron status' = to check cron status.
'sudo service cron start' = to run cron service as sudo.
'sudo service cron stop' = to stop cron service as sudo. Optional command.

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Thanks
I was wondering for days . Whether normal ubuntu user have cron service on by default ?

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As usual your tutorials are the best.
When searching tutorials I always see if you are covering the topic I am looking for.

[@keic2071]

Great video, didn't feel like nearly 19 minutes, everything was clear and concise.
One thing that was probably worth mentioning though - what if you want to set a cron job for last day of every month? Set the days to *28-31* and of course leave the month as *.
Although Corey showed us how to specify a range, last day of month kinda threw me off a bit. It took a few seconds to realise haha I guess I'm just slow.

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This is the first cron explanation I watched and I bet it's the best.

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I went from having no clue about crontabs to master in 18:50. Thanks for the great tutorial!

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Excellent explanations! Thank you for helping me set up a scheduled backup w/ this and your rsync video!

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This the best tutorial for crontab!! Amazing job Corey, I learned quickly!

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Corey, you’re so awesome that I just signed up on Patreon. Thanks so much for your very articulate videos and keep up the great work. Do you have python Machine Learning videos too ?

[@coreyms]

Thanks! And I don’t have any yet, but will begin working on some soon

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Such a good tutorial Corey. Just like the python ones. Thanks!.

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this is awesome. I was so confused at first but this cleared everything right up.

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Thanks! I'm not as funny as Bucky, but I'll take it :)

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Thank you so much for this tutorial, it was very clear and easy to learn!

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Great video man this is my first time learning cron so this tutorial really helped.

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[@zestful14]

Just set up two cron jobs, thanks Corey!

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Hi Corey, excellent tutorial (as all of yours are). You have good pacing and your tutorials are easy to follow. I have a minor correction for you. In the example where you delete the temp folder every Friday, your example deletes at 5m. Not 5pm as you intended. Thanks again for all your order full tutorials.

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Great tutorial as always!

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Thanks, commented snippets were very helpful. Didn't want to have to look for those alt codes that make those nice looking lines.

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Top notch explanation..no competition yet

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This tutorial is so fu***ng good, that it hurts. Thank you Corey.

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stumbled here because of Google search but wow! amazing flow, most straight fwd. tutorial I have ever seen.

[@grannyoldr988]

I learned how to use cron in about 19 minutes. Thanks!

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short and crisp, thank you

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As always, best explanation of a topic ever

[@56independent42]

ever since finding out about this, my life has been made so much easier. no need to remember to run a backup script every day. just put it in crontab and leave it alone.

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I really enjoyed this video. All your videos are so well done. Would you be able to do a video comparing CRON to AT? When you have time, of course. Both seem like they could be very useful.

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