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Automate Your Life With Cron
Posted February 21, 2013 by Ben
“In this article, we will be looking once again to lessen the burdens of every day life by automating some of the tasks which take up our precious time. We will be using Cron, a time-based job scheduler in Linux to periodically run scripts to do things we would normally have to do manually.”
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May 25th, 2018 at 8:41 pm
Cron is driven by a crontab file, which contains instructions to the cron daemon telling it to run some command at a specified date and time.I read your astounding post. In the wake of reading this post, I truly value your exertion and my demand is to please share us more post in future. It is exceptionally decent to read out the article. I really appreciate the work done by the creator.
August 9th, 2018 at 10:47 pm
Great article and interesting, thank you for sharing.
October 3rd, 2018 at 10:14 pm
This tutorial will be very helpful for you if you want to connect one computer with another computer. Use Microsoft windows 10 OS to get this remote desktop facility. Thank you so much to this info.
March 13th, 2019 at 8:00 am
Cron is definitely what you need if you want to make your life easier.