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Use Cron to Automate Computing Tasks
As a necessity, computing tasks need to be run at all hours of the day. It would be tedious and impractical to have to manually run these regular tasks by hand across your company's fleet of computers. That's where “cron” comes in. Cron is a ubiquitous daemon (perennial) process that is used to execute scripts on whatever schedule you configure. You can configure cron to run your programs every minute, every hour, every 2 hours, once a day, etc. This makes for a convenient and powerful way to manage the computing tasks for your company. This cron tutorial will teach you about cron configuration and maintenance as well as provide examples of its use.
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