• Kess8a@lemy.lol
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    11 days ago

    Gonna try me best, anyone who know what it’s trying to say can correct me

    Sooo… A Cronjob for “git prune” to Honour Holy Barbs on December 4th?

    Cronjob? Cronsob? Crondom? Tbh i dont know what it means even if spelled correctly…

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
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      11 days ago

      a cronjob (from chronos meaning time) is an automated task that occurs when the system clock hits a date and time

      they are kept in a crontab (cron table) and are written with a number representing minute-hour-monthday-month-weekday-command

      e.g.

       45 23 * * 6 echo hello world
      

      would run at the 45th minute of the 23rd hour of the 6th weekday (11:45pm on a Saturday) and print “hello world” to the console

      it was invented in 1970 for Unix systems (like Jurassic Parks hacking scene), and is still in use today in most servers*

      *don’t come after me with specifics, trying to ELI5 here.

      • computergeek125@lemmy.world
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        10 days ago

        Considering the cron time format is accepted in more than just runners like cron/anacron, I’d say your answer is reasonable (plus this is comics). No pitchforks here :)