Cron commands to plain English
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Cron commands to plain English
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Re: Cron commands to plain English
#2You can also use DuckDuckGo to do this: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cron+0+0+*+*+*+some_report.sh&t=lm
Re: Cron commands to plain English
#3Just played a bit with it. http://goo.gl/q8lT9B
Re: Cron commands to plain English
#4Does not understand this syntax: "1-56/5 * * * * foo"
Re: Cron commands to plain English
#5I'd dig something going in the opposite direction! Especially packed in a shell script, e.g. `cronglish "echo testing" every half hour >> ~/.crontab`
Re: Cron commands to plain English
#6Looks like they're the chaps behind https://deadmanssnitch.com which looks like a simple and useful service.
Re: Cron commands to plain English
#7You can also use DuckDuckGo to do this: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cron+0+0+*+*+*+some_report.sh&t=lm
>Cron will schedule the job at this frequency: 0:00:00 on 2 Aug, 2014 0:00:00 on 3 Aug, 2014 0:00:00 on 4 Aug, 2014
Results are a little harder to read. This other site gives more natural sentences.
Re: Cron commands to plain English
#8@reboot cd ~/bin/some_daemon
is not a very good example. It will launch a shell which will change to the specified directory and then terminate. (It might produce an error message if the directory doesn't exist.)
Re: Cron commands to plain English
#9It would be great to also list the next few datetimes that this would occur on as examples.
It would also be great to support the seconds field.
Re: Cron commands to plain English
#10I've been using http://cronwtf.github.io/ for years to double-check cron expressions.