crontab-win 0.0.2

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 the crontab.txt, type crontab show or ctab show this will open the crontab.txt.

Edit this file to introduce tasks to be run by cron.

Each task to run has to be defined through a single line indicating with different fields when the task will be run and what command to run for the task

To define the time you can provide concrete values for minute (m), hour (h), day of month (dom), month (mon), and day of week (dow) or use '*' in these fields (for 'any').

Notice that tasks will be started based on the system notion of time and timezones.

Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is shown to the user the crontab file belongs to (unless redirected).

For example, you can run a backup of all your user accounts at 5 a.m every week with:

0 5 * * 1 tar -zcf /var/backups/home.tgz /home/

Read the blogpost about it

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

Start crontab at startup

create a batch file

@echo off
start /min ctab 

and keep it in shell:startup folder.

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