crontab-win 0.0.1

crontab for windows

crontab-win

crontab for windows. Add crontab entries in a textfile and then this programs are executed as per schedule.

To use this, crontab show this will open the crontab.txt. add entry to to it as below

* * * * * notepad

This will open notepad every minute

Installation

Install this tool using pip:

pip install crontab-win

Usage

For help, run:

crontab --help

You can also use:

python -m crontab --help

crontab syntax

# ┌───────────── minute (0 - 59)
# │ ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23)
# │ │ ┌───────────── day of the month (1 - 31)
# │ │ │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12)
# │ │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of the week (0 - 6) (Sunday to Saturday;
# │ │ │ │ │                                   7 is also Sunday on some systems)
# │ │ │ │ │
# │ │ │ │ │
# * * * * * command to execute

Development

To contribute to this tool, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:

cd crontab-win
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Now install the dependencies and test dependencies:

pip install -e '.[test]'

To run the tests:

python -m pytest