crontab Command Examples

Schedule cron jobs to run on a time interval for the current user. More information: https://crontab.guru/.

• Edit the crontab file for the current user:

crontab -e

• Edit the crontab file for a specific user:

sudo crontab -e -u {{user}}

• Replace the current crontab with the contents of the given file:

crontab {{path/to/file}}

• View a list of existing cron jobs for current user:

crontab -l

• Remove all cron jobs for the current user:

crontab -r

• Sample job which runs at 10:00 every day (* means any value):

0 10 * * * {{command_to_execute}}

• Sample crontab entry, which runs a command every 10 minutes:

*/10 * * * * {{command_to_execute}}

• Sample crontab entry, which runs a certain script at 02:30 every Friday:

30 2 * * Fri {{/absolute/path/to/script.sh}}