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Next is to add your cron job to the file...
The cron job runs in a certain format of minute (0-59), hour (0-23, 0 = midnight), day (1-31), month (1-12), weekday (0-6, 0 = Sunday), command
As an example
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30 05 * * * /path/to/script |
The script will run at 5:30AM everyday
A cron job can be user-defined as long as the name is added to the cron job
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45 15 * * * roderick /home/roderick/script |
At 3:45 pm everyday user roderick will run a script.