Cron Cheat Sheet

Commands

crontab -l # View current crontab
crontab -l > my-crontab-backup.txt # Backup to file
crontab -r # Delete crontab
crontab my-crontab-backup.txt # Restore from file
crontab -e # Edit crontab

Common schedule times

# Every minute
* * * * * some-command.sh

Redirect stdout & stderr

* * * * * some-command.sh 2>&1