Self-contained crontab Cheatsheet

This time I’m bringing you a self-documented cron table file (with an example), that is, a tidy cheatsheet diagram embedded as comments that does just one thing, helps you remember the crontab syntax:

# * * * * * command to be executed
# - - - - -
# | | | | |
# | | | | +- - - - day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0)
# | | | +- - - - - month (1 - 12)
# | | +- - - - - - day of month (1 - 31)
# | +- - - - - - - hour (0 - 23)
# +- - - - - - - - minute (0 - 59)

# Alarm clock set to 6:30AM
30 6 * * * /home/nano/alarm

I hope you find it useful, thanks for reading and happy May Revolution Day to everyone!

1 Response to “Self-contained crontab Cheatsheet”


  1. 1 daniel July 11, 2008 at 5:40 pm

    Mate,

    Congrats, it’s nice to see you posting again :p

    I don’t wanna be insensitive or rude… and I know 15 minutes of your time translating the post would probably cost a sweat… but… can’t you post the content both ways? :D

    Duke Nukem Dan


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