Starter for a crontab. Copy this into your crontab in order to have a little cheat sheet for creating scheduled tasks.

Cron Starter

MAILTO=you@example.com

# +------------------------- Minute of the Hour ( 0 - 59, * to run every minute )
# |  +---------------------- Hour of the Day ( 0 - 23, * to run every hour )
# |  |  +------------------- Day of the Month ( 1 - 31, * to run every day )
# |  |  |  +---------------- Month ( 1 - 12, * to run every month )
# |  |  |  |  +------------- Day of Week ( 0 - 7, Sunday is both 0 and 7, * to run every day )
# |  |  |  |  |  +---------- User to run command as ( Defaults to the user that set up this crontab, Beware permissions! )
# |  |  |  |  |  |          +---- Command to Execute ( 
# |  |  |  |  |  |          | 

  *  *  *  *  *  root       /usr/bin/command.sh

# Notes and syntax
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# Commands MUST be referenced with the full path. You should not assume your command will run without having the full path