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- ; Sample file for CRONRGF.CMD
- ;
- ; Rony G. Flatscher, Vienna/Austria/Europe
- ; University of Business Administration and Economics
- ; Vienna, 1992-06-10
- ;
- ;
- ; This is a comment (starts with a semicolumn)
- ; empty lines are ignored too...
-
-
- ; LAYOUT OF THE CRON-FILE:
- ; * * * * * command
- ; or
- ; minute hour day month weekday command
- ; where minute ranges from 0-59,
- ; hour ranges from 0-23,
- ; day ranges from 1-31,
- ; month ranges from 1-12,
- ; weekday ranges from 1-7 (1 = Monday, 2 = Tuesday, ..., 7 = Sunday
- ;
- ; you can give a list of values, separated by a comma (,), e.g. "1,3,7"
- ; you can give a range of values, separated by a dash (-), e.g. "1-5"
- ; you can give a star (*) instead of a value, meaning entire range of all valid values
- ;
- ; the given command is only executed when all criteriae are fullfilled !
- ;
- ; restriction: unlike to Unix, the percent-sign (%) is treated like any other character
- ;
-
-
- ; example-entries in a cron control-file
- ;
- ; the given command is only executed when all criteriae are fullfilled !
- ;
-
- ; the following command "@ECHO HI, I am Nr. 1 to be echoed every minute" would be
- ; executed every minute
- * * * * * @ECHO Hi, I am Nr. 1 to be echoed every minute & pause
-
- 59 23 31 12 5 command, one minute before year's end, and only if the last day is a Friday
-
- ; comment: every year at 17:45 on June 7th:
- 45 17 7 6 * dir c:\*.exe
-
- ; comment: on every full quarter of an hour
- ; at midnight, 6 in the morning, noon, 6 in the evening
- ; on the 1st, 15th and 31st of
- ; every month on
- ; weekdays only
- 0,15,30,45 0,6,12,18 1,15,31 * * backup c:\*.* d:\ /s
-
- ; at noon on every day, if it is a weekday:
- 0 12 * * 1-5 XCOPY Q:\* D:\ /s
-
- ; every minute in January, March, May, July, September and November:
- * * * 1,3,5,7,9,11 * dir c:\*.cmd
-
- ; at the last day of the year at 23:01, 23:02, 23:03, 23:05, 23:20, 23:21,
- ; 23:22, 23:23, 23:24, 23:25, 23:30, 23:31, 23:32, 23:33, 23:34, 23:35,
- ; 23:59
- 1,2,3,5,20-25,30-35,59 23 31 12 * COPY D:\*.log E:\backup
-
- ; make backups of OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI on every first monday of a month,
- ; at 9 o'clock in the morning
- 0 9 1-7 * 1 showini /bt d:\os2\os2.ini
- 0 9 1-7 * 1 showini /bt d:\os2\os2sys.ini
-
- ; at midnight on every month:
- 0 0 1 * * tapebackup /all
-
- ; execute every minute, no restrictions:
- * * * * * @ECHO Hi, I am Nr. 2 to be echoed every minute & pause
-
- ; execute every minute in January, February, March only !
- * * * 1,2,3 * any-command any-arguments
-
- ; execute every day at midnight
- 0 0 * * * any-command any-arguments
-
- ; execute every wednesday at midnigth !
- 0 0 * * 3 any-command any-arguments
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- ; this is a comment which concludes the sample file ===========================