Continuing with his Linux 101 series, Jack Wallen introduces you to the basics of task scheduling with cron.

If you're looking to automate tasks in Linux, cron is the tool to use. Find out how it's done here.

These jobs are stored in a crontab file, which contains the action to be taken and specifies when it should be executed. I will be using Ubuntu 18.04 for this article, which has cron installed by ...