Weekly jobs in crontab

The syntax for crontab entries is confusing at best. Fortunately, cron provides easy to read special strings for common cases.

If you want a job to run once a week your crontab would look like this:

@weekly /usr/bin/my_job

And thats it! @weekly in this case means 0 0 * * 0. Every Sunday at midnight.

You can check other crontab special strings with man 5 crontab.

H/T Dorian Karter

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