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- ; Sample file for CRONRGF.CMD
- ;
- ; Rony G. Flatscher, Vienna/Austria/Europe
- ; University of Business Administration and Economics
- ; Vienna, 1993-11-04
- ;
- ;
- ; This is a comment (starts with a ';' - semicolumn)
- # This is a comment (starts with a '#')
- ; empty lines are ignored too...
-
-
- # LAYOUT OF THE CRON-FILE:
- # * * * * * command
- # or
- # minute hour day month weekday command
- # where minute ranges from 0-59,
- # hour ranges from 0-23,
- # day ranges from 1-31,
- # month ranges from 1-12,
- # weekday ranges from 1-7 (1 = Monday, 2 = Tuesday, ..., 7 = Sunday
- #
- # you can give a list of values, separated by a comma (,), e.g. "1,3,7"
- # you can give a range of values, separated by a dash (-), e.g. "1-5"
- # you can give a star (*) instead of a value, meaning entire range of all valid values
- #
- # the given command is only executed when all criteriae are fullfilled !
- #
- # restriction: unlike to Unix, the percent-sign (%) is treated like any other character and
- # not as a new-line
- #
-
-
- ; example-entries in a cron control-file
- ;
- ; the given command is only executed when all criteriae are fullfilled !
- ;
-
- ; the following command "@ECHO HI, I am Nr. 1 to be echoed every minute" would be
- ; executed every minute
- * * * * * @ECHO Hi, I am Nr. 1 to be echoed every minute & pause
-
- 59 23 31 12 5 command, one minute before year's end, and only if the last day is a Friday
-
- ; comment: every year at 17:45 on June 7th:
- 45 17 7 6 * dir c:\*.exe
-
- # comment: on every full quarter of an hour
- # at midnight, 6 in the morning, noon, 6 in the evening
- # on the 1st, 15th and 31st of
- # every month on
- 0,15,30,45 0,6,12,18 1,15,31 * * backup c:\*.* d:\ /s
-
- ; at noon on every day, if it is a weekday (Mo-Fri):
- 0 12 * * 1-5 XCOPY Q:\* D:\ /s
-
- ; every minute in January, March, May, July, September and November:
- * * * 1,3,5,7,9,11 * dir c:\*.cmd
-
- # at the last day of the year at 23:01, 23:02, 23:03, 23:05, 23:20, 23:21,
- # 23:22, 23:23, 23:24, 23:25, 23:30, 23:31, 23:32, 23:33, 23:34, 23:35,
- # 23:59
- 1,2,3,5,20-25,30-35,59 23 31 12 * COPY D:\*.log E:\backup
-
- ; make backups of OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI on every first monday of a month,
- ; at 9 o'clock in the morning
- 0 9 1-7 * 1 showini /bt d:\os2\os2.ini
- 0 9 1-7 * 1 showini /bt d:\os2\os2sys.ini
-
- # at midnight on every month:
- 0 0 1 * * tapebackup /all
-
- ; execute every minute, no restrictions:
- * * * * * @ECHO Hi, I am Nr. 2 to be echoed every minute & pause
-
- # execute every minute in January, February, March only !
- * * * 1,2,3 * any-command any-arguments
-
- ; execute every day at midnight
- 0 0 * * * any-command any-arguments
-
- # execute every wednesday at midnigth !
- 0 0 * * 3 any-command any-arguments
-
- ; this is a comment which concludes the sample file ===========================