Creating a Cron Job (Terminal)

Creating a Cron Job

• First, you need to open the crontab file. To do this use env EDITOR=nano crontab -e. This will open up the crontab file in Nano.
• Then type the timing sequence and the command to execute. The timing sequence works as follows:
• 0 11 * * * - This will perform the job every day at 11am.
• The first space specifies the minute to run, the second the hour, the third the day of the month (1 - 31), the fourth the month of the year (1 - 12) and the fifth the day of the week (0 - 6, where 0 is Sunday and 6 Saturday).
• After the timing sequence goes your command. ie. 0 11 * * * /Users/juansaldarriaga/Documents/Reference\ Documents/05_Libraries_and_Scripts/./backup_02_Google_Drive.sh.
• Then save (control-o) and exit nano (control-x). If everything was fine you should see a message that says installing new crontab.
• To list the current cron jobs, type crontab -l.
• A more detailed explanation can be found here.
• Note: all the commands need to have absolute paths (ie. /usr/local/bin/gsync), otherwise cron won't be able to find them. The paths to the files also needs to be absolute.