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Scheduling a program using the crontab file

From the internet, and slightly adjusted for a linux system… [http://www.kalab.com/freeware/cron/cron.htm]
The Crontab file
Each line of CRONTAB has the following structure:

Position:     Values:
Minute     0-59
Hour     0-23
Day     1-31
Month     1-12
Day of week     0-6 (0=Sunday, 1=Monday, …, 6=Saturday)
Instead of minute, hour, day, month or day of week it’s also possible […]