Can I create a crontab file with vi without the crontab command? Currently working on a microcontroller linux distribution, and there's no crontab command ...

I have a script that i am using to move data around called from cron. I would like to have the ability to differentiate between being called from cron and being called from command line, so i can ...

The crontab is a file that you must edit with the crontab command (execute crontab -e). Each line that isn’t a comment specifies a program to run.

The syntax for a crontab entry is as follows: minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week command A minute can range from 0 to 59, with hour from 0 to 23, day of month from 1 to 31 and month from 1 ...

To use this command, run the command 'crontab -e', and it will open a cron table that lists scheduled tasks that run at specific times and dates, and you will see an option to select an editor.

In CronniX, open the system-level crontab. In the Command column, you’ll see the three cron events that run these scripts. Select the daily (here, periodic daily) entry and click on the Edit button.

Now, to stitch it all together, the best bet is to drop the find command into a very short shell script and invoke the script with cron, rather than having the command itself in the crontab file.