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Old 7-Nov-2019, 5:56 AM   #2
GroundUrMast
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Using crontab for recurring recordings

I also use crontab to schedule recurring recordings. The following example represents my daily newscast recording schedule. I can watch a news cast until it is overwritten by the next scheduled recording of that newscast.

crontab -e is used to edit the cron-table.
crontab -l is used to list the current cron-table.

Code:
$ crontab -l
# 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 cron's system
# daemon's notion of time and timezones.
# 
# Output of the crontab jobs (including errors) is sent through
# email 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/
# 
# For more information see the manual pages of crontab(5) and cron(8)
# 
# m h  dom mon dow   command
59 10 * * 1-5 . $HOME/.profile; /bin/bash /home/tom/bin/recordTV.sh 4.1 KOMO-TV4.1NewsAt11AM 32 > /home/tom/tempcron4.1.log 2>&1
59 15 * * 1-5 . $HOME/.profile; /bin/bash /home/tom/bin/recordTV.sh 4.1 KOMO-TV4.1NewsAt4PM 32 > /home/tom/tempcron4.1.log 2>&1
59 22 * * * . $HOME/.profile; /bin/bash /home/tom/bin/recordTV.sh 4.1 KOMO-TV4.1NewsAt11PM 32 > /home/tom/tempcron4.1.log 2>&1
59 11 * * 1-5 . $HOME/.profile; /bin/bash /home/tom/bin/recordTV.sh 5.1 KING-TV5.1NewsAtNoon 32 > /home/tom/tempcron5.1.log 2>&1
59 16 * * 1-6 . $HOME/.profile; /bin/bash /home/tom/bin/recordTV.sh 5.1 KING-TV5.1NewsAt5PM 32 > /home/tom/tempcron5.1.log 2>&1
59 22 * * * . $HOME/.profile; /bin/bash /home/tom/bin/recordTV.sh 5.1 KING-TV5.1NewsAt11PM 32 > /home/tom/tempcron5.1.log 2>&1
59 11 * * 1-5 . $HOME/.profile; /bin/bash /home/tom/bin/recordTV.sh 7.1 KIRO-TV7.1NewsAtNoon 32 > /home/tom/tempcron7.1.log 2>&1
59 17 * * 1-5 . $HOME/.profile; /bin/bash /home/tom/bin/recordTV.sh 7.1 KIRO-TV7.1NewsAt6PM 32 > /home/tom/tempcron7.1.log 2>&1
59 22 * * * . $HOME/.profile; /bin/bash /home/tom/bin/recordTV.sh 7.1 KIRO-TV7.1NewsAt11PM 32 > /home/tom/tempcron7.1.log 2>&1
29 17 * * 1-5 . $HOME/.profile; /bin/bash /home/tom/bin/recordTV.sh 9.1 KCTS-TV9.1NewsAt530PM 92 > /home/tom/tempcron9.1.log 2>&1
59 7 * * 1-5 . $HOME/.profile; /bin/bash /home/tom/bin/recordTV.sh 13.1 KCPQ-TV13.1NewsAt8AM 32 > /home/tom/tempcron13.1.log 2>&1
59 21 * * * . $HOME/.profile; /bin/bash /home/tom/bin/recordTV.sh 13.1 KCPQ-TV13.1NewsAt10PM 32 > /home/tom/tempcron13.1.log 2>&1
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