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cronfreebsd
Dcoder
Dcoder

Reputation: 379

how to create a cron job for running a perl script at a fixed time of day every day on free bsd?

I have perl script which I want to be executed at a fixed time of day everyday using a cron job ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 751

Answers (1)

cc4re
cc4re

Reputation: 4901

$ crontab -e 1 2 3 4 5 /path_to_your_perl_script

save it with :wq

Where,

1: Minute (0-59)
2: Hours (0-23)
3: Day (0-31)
4: Month (0-12 [12 == December])
5: Day of the week(0-7 [7 or 0 == sunday])
/path_to_your_perl_script  - Script or command name to schedule

Upvotes: 1

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