Crontab
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Crontab is the tool to schedule tasks in linux
>crontab -e
Example:
0 4 12 3 * aplication &
The above example tells to execute the application "aplication" the 12/3 at 04:00. The ending ampersand (&) is to wikipedia:fork fork the application in an external shell.
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Add this at the end of the cronjob line:
>/dev/null 2>&1
First friday of every month
This one's a bit more complicated but it's manageable:
30 13 1-7 * * [ `date +\%w` -eq 5 ]&& myscript.sh >/dev/null 2>&1
