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

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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 ...