How to schedule a Cron Job to run a script on Ubuntu 16.04

This video covers the method to schedule a cron job to run a script on Ubuntu 16.04. Crontab allows Linux and Unix users to run commands or scripts at a given date and time.

[_pratos]

Surprising that people have complicated blogposts to do this very same thing. Kudos for showing this simplified use-case!

[uniblab]

Excellent instructions on Cron tab setup!
Job well done!
Thank you.

[edwinaritama]

the year is 2020, and it just helped me, thanks a lot man!

[Anonnline]

Additionally, you don't have to use "/bin/sh" as you can also use "sh" or "bash" or even "./" for most systems (including Debian/Ubuntu based systems).
For sudo commands, however, it's best to instead place those jobs in the root crontab list (update, upgrade, updatedb, etc).

[mr.charithsiriwardena]

Perfect teaching and great presentation skills.

[Idontknow]

Simple and well explained!!! MANY THANKS :)

[ArtisansWebVideos]

Thanks. I got the idea about steps should follow on centos and it works.

[zinthandarshein]

Thanks, it's easy to understand and really helpful for me.

[pavelgrishin]

god damn, you're better than chatGPT, thx!

[felipep]

For me, it was also very helpul! thanks, and regards from Chile :)

[zotti_dasurviech]

Thanks for your help :D
Regards from Germany !

[rahul]

Superb tutorial brother....amazed to see this..solved my all problem

[leleofarias]

Thank you! Make the same with Docker and Ubuntu

[bodapatiudayasri]

Sir, I did as it is but I didn't get new file in the desktop when the specified time came

[BorgyManotoyOnline]

Thanks, I have a question though... what is the difference with the approach adding the script in `/etc/cron.daily`? I have a task to run a script daily.. but it does not work after I put the script in `/etc/cron.daily` and also removed the extension `.sh`. I can see the script when I run test (run-part --test ...). I am just wondering though... I will try this approach later :)

[navinchakitchen]

How can I trigger a notification when a job/process ends? in linux

[sarahsalah]

How can I schedule a job so that each time it runs it takes an argument which can be a date and that date can be used in the script being run ?

[SSOUZA]

if I send "crontab -e", than return "no crontab for u54653268745". How to solver this? This is vps cloud hostinger

[onlynetflix]

i trying to run script for to open one tmux session. in this session i opening web page with browsh (browser with java libraries). Crontab open only session but don't session with browsh. Ideas?

[presidentravi]

Very helpful LinuxHelp, Could we make a reboot ubuntu system to set cron job?