How do you schedule a command to run at 4:00 every
morning?

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How do you schedule a command to run at 4:00 every morning? ..

Answer / swaroopa

Step 1. Set environemen variable EDITOR=vi if not set
Step 2. Give command crontab -e
Step 3. Add following entry at the end
0 4 * * * <Your command to run at 4:00 am morning>
1. There are two ways to schedule a script to run exactly
at 4:00 AM every morning

a: CRONTAB
b. AT (at command executes only once)

Crontab format
* * * * * <command>
<minute> <hour> <date> <month> <day_of_the_week> command
<0-59> <0-23> <1-31> <1-12> <0-
7> command

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How do you schedule a command to run at 4:00 every morning? ..

Answer / premitha

Using cron jobs

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How do you schedule a command to run at 4:00 every morning? ..

Answer / king

Using cron tab scheduler

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How do you schedule a command to run at 4:00 every morning? ..

Answer / satchi

crontab -e

* 4 * * * <command>

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How do you schedule a command to run at 4:00 every morning? ..

Answer / guest

* 4 * * * * <command to run>

= this is in cron job

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