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How to Set Up Automated Tasks in Linux Using Cron

A Step-by-Step Guide to Setting Up a Cron Job

Kessie Zhang
Towards Data Science
5 min readNov 18, 2020

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Introduction

Have you ever found yourself doing repetitive tasks on a regular basis? For example, deleting temporary files every week to conserve your disk space, scraping data from a site every week to gather new…

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