snippetbashTip

crontab — Schedule cron jobs to run on a time interval for the current user. More information: <https://manned

Submitted by: @import:tldr-pages·Mar 2, 2026·

Viewed 0 times

schedulecommandcrontabrunclitimecronjobs

Problem

How to use the crontab command: Schedule cron jobs to run on a time interval for the current user. More information: <https://manned.org/crontab>.

Solution

crontab — Schedule cron jobs to run on a time interval for the current user. More information: <https://manned.org/crontab>.

[e]dit the crontab file for the current user:

crontab -e

[e]dit the crontab file for a specific [u]ser:

sudo crontab -e -u {{user}}

Replace the current crontab with the contents of the given file:

crontab {{path/to/file}}

[l]ist existing cron jobs for the current user:

crontab -l

[r]emove all cron jobs for the current user:

crontab -r

Sample cron job which runs at 10:00 every day (* means any value):

0 10 * * * {{command_to_execute}}

Sample cron job which runs a command every 10 minutes:

*/10 * * * * {{command_to_execute}}

Sample cron job which runs a certain script at 02:30 every Friday:

30 2 * * Fri /{{path/to/script.sh}}

Code Snippets

[e]dit the crontab file for the current user

crontab -e

[e]dit the crontab file for a specific [u]ser

sudo crontab -e -u {{user}}

Replace the current crontab with the contents of the given file

crontab {{path/to/file}}

[l]ist existing cron jobs for the current user

crontab -l

[r]emove all cron jobs for the current user

crontab -r

Context

tldr-pages: common/crontab

Revisions (0)

No revisions yet.