I want to say I am a complete newbie but I want a shell script that will execute a command on a specific time for example on 6:45 am
How is this done, a full example would be very useful! Thank you!
I want to say I am a complete newbie but I want a shell script that will execute a command on a specific time for example on 6:45 am
How is this done, a full example would be very useful! Thank you!
You want to use cron
.
You create schedules within your crontab
(crontab -e
). The syntax of how to do that can be seen here.
If you wanted to clear /tmp/
at 6:45 AM every day you'd have something like the following in your crontab
:
45 6 * * * /bin/rm -rf /tmp/*