How do you schedule a command to run at 4:00 every
morning?
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Answer / swaroopa
Step 1. Set environemen variable EDITOR=vi if not set
Step 2. Give command crontab -e
Step 3. Add following entry at the end
0 4 * * * <Your command to run at 4:00 am morning>
1. There are two ways to schedule a script to run exactly
at 4:00 AM every morning
a: CRONTAB
b. AT (at command executes only once)
Crontab format
* * * * * <command>
<minute> <hour> <date> <month> <day_of_the_week> command
<0-59> <0-23> <1-31> <1-12> <0-
7> command
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Answer / guest
* 4 * * * * <command to run>
= this is in cron job
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