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Old 09-21-2005
How can I run a batch daily
I am very very new in Unix. Thank you for your forum : many answers for my dummy questions !
Today, I have a script that works well. I want it to run daily. How can I do ? What can I search in man ???
Thank you in advance.
A. MARTINEZ
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Old 09-21-2005
Simple enough - use crontab file

man crontab

cron is a process that will read the crontab file and submit scripts that will run at your predefined times.
crontab -l This will show you your users current crontab file assuming you have one...
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Old 09-21-2005
Thank you very much !
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Old 09-21-2005
if u want to run script daily go for crontab or u can specify bash_profile where every time u log into the system it will run

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