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Shivangee
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Yaa i know .. I help you in explaining about this .
The crontab is a list of commands that you want to run on a regular schedule, and also the name of the command used to manage that list.
crontab stands for "cron table," because it uses the job scheduler Cron to execute tasks; cron itself is named after "chronos," the Greek word for time.
cron is the system process which will automatically perform tasks for you according to a set schedule. The schedule is called the crontab, which is also the name of the program used to edit that schedule.
Let's say you have a script which backs up important files, or creates a report about system statistics, for example. Let's say the script is called/home/myname/scripts/do-every-day.sh, and you want to run it every morning at 5 A.M.
To edit the crontab, use this command:
crontab -e
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