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crontab

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Etymology

Shortening of cron table, where cron is the name of the system program that handles these tasks, from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).

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crontab (plural crontabs)

  1. (computing, Unix) A table of commands to be executed periodically.
    • 2008, Michael Lucas, Absolute FreeBSD: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD:
      The purpose of /etc/crontab is different from that of individual users' crontabs. With /etc/crontab, root may specify which user will run a particular command.
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