; Sample file for CRONRGF.CMD ; ; Rony G. Flatscher, Vienna/Austria/Europe ; University of Business Administration and Economics ; Vienna, 1992-06-10 ; ; ; This is a comment (starts with a semicolumn) ; 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 ; ; 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 ; weekdays only 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: 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 ===========================