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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Crontab on hourly basis Post 302765021 by Optimus81 on Friday 1st of February 2013 10:05:54 AM
Old 02-01-2013
here is the small explaination.
Code:
1 2 3 4 5 /root/backup.sh
 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/command - Script or command name to schedule
Easy to remember format:
* * * * * command to be executed
- - - - -
| | | | |
| | | | ----- Day of week (0 - 7) (Sunday=0 or 7)
| | | ------- Month (1 - 12)
| | --------- Day of month (1 - 31)
| ----------- Hour (0 - 23)
------------- Minute (0 - 59)
here a good comparison table i use to make it easy Format Meaning 
0 0 1 1 * Run once a year 
0 0 1 * * Run once a month 
0 0 * * 0 Run once a week 
0 0 * * * Run once a day 
0 * * * * Run once an hour

and
Code:
@yearly (or @annually) Run once a year, midnight, Jan. 1st 0 0 1 1 * 
@monthly Run once a month, midnight, first of month 0 0 1 * * 
@weekly Run once a week, midnight on Sunday 0 0 * * 0 
@daily Run once a day, midnight 0 0 * * * 
@hourly Run once an hour, beginning of hour 0 * * * * 
@reboot Run at startup @reboot

 

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Time::CTime(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					  Time::CTime(3pm)

NAME
Time::CTime -- format times ala POSIX asctime SYNOPSIS
use Time::CTime print ctime(time); print asctime(localtime(time)); print strftime(template, localtime(time)); strftime conversions %% PERCENT %a day of the week abbr %A day of the week %b month abbr %B month %c ctime format: Sat Nov 19 21:05:57 1994 %d DD %D MM/DD/YY %e numeric day of the month %f floating point seconds (milliseconds): .314 %F floating point seconds (microseconds): .314159 %h month abbr %H hour, 24 hour clock, leading 0's) %I hour, 12 hour clock, leading 0's) %j day of the year %k hour %l hour, 12 hour clock %m month number, starting with 1, leading 0's %M minute, leading 0's %n NEWLINE %o ornate day of month -- "1st", "2nd", "25th", etc. %p AM or PM %r time format: 09:05:57 PM %R time format: 21:05 %S seconds, leading 0's %t TAB %T time format: 21:05:57 %U week number, Sunday as first day of week %v DD-Mon-Year %w day of the week, numerically, Sunday == 0 %W week number, Monday as first day of week %x date format: 11/19/94 %X time format: 21:05:57 %y year (2 digits) %Y year (4 digits) %Z timezone in ascii. eg: PST DESCRIPTION
This module provides routines to format dates. They correspond to the libc routines. &strftime() supports a pretty good set of coversions -- more than most C libraries. strftime supports a pretty good set of conversions. The POSIX module has very similar functionality. You should consider using it instead if you do not have allergic reactions to system libraries. GENESIS
Written by David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.org>. The starting point for this package was a posting by Paul Foley <paul@ascent.com> LICENSE
Copyright (C) 1996-2010 David Muir Sharnoff. Copyright (C) 2011 Google, Inc. License hereby granted for anyone to use, modify or redistribute this module at their own risk. Please feed useful changes back to cpan@dave.sharnoff.org. perl v5.12.3 2011-05-12 Time::CTime(3pm)
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