crontab

NAME

crontab - Windows command-line utility to schedule periodic jobs to run in the background

SYNOPSIS

crontab [file] [-p]
crontab [-e|-l|-r] [-p]

DESCRIPTION

The crontab(1w) Windows command-line utility manipulates your crontab entry, which is a list of commands and when they should be run in the background. You can replace your crontab entry with a new one specified by file (or standard input if you do not specify file), or you can use the command crontab -e to edit your entry directly.

You must be logged on as a member of the Administrators group to run the crontab(1w) utility unless an administrator has given you cron privileges by placing your user name in the cron.allow file or if your user name does not appear in the cron.deny file and cron.allow does not exist.

The crontab(1w) utility takes the following options:

-e

Edit your crontab entry; if there is no entry, create an empty one to edit.

-l

List your crontab entry.

-r

Remove your crontab entry.

-p

Prompts for and stores your password to run your tasks.

For the syntax and semantics of a crontab file, see crontab(5).

SEE ALSO

Using Cron

cron(1w)