Cron Job

[slopeofhope]

Hi,

Does any one know how to setup a cron job?

I have folder A and folder B.

I am thinking of setting up a cron job to help me rename folder A to folder C and folder B to folder A every day at a specific time.

Anyone knows how to do it?

 

[davidktw]

Hi,

Does any one know how to setup a cron job?

I have folder A and folder B.

I am thinking of setting up a cron job to help me rename folder A to folder C and folder B to folder A every day at a specific time.

Anyone knows how to do it?

Unix I assume ?

Type "crontab -e"

Read the manual "man cron"

The command to move folders as you have described is

mv a c && mv b a

or

mv a c; mv b a

 

[slopeofhope]

Unix I assume ?

Type "crontab -e"

Read the manual "man cron"

The command to move folders as you have described is

mv a c && mv b a

or

mv a c; mv b a

hey thanks bro!

 

[stougard]

crontab -e

That opens an editor, usually vi (you should know how to use it anyway).

0 0 * * * mv full_path/a full_path/c && mv full_path/b full_path/a

The cron is launched from the home of the user, good practice is to indicate full path when your cron entry try to reach a specific folder.

Note as well that "b" folder will cease to exist at midnight and that "a" will be placed inside "c" if "c" already exists.