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PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook
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PowerShell Core for Linux Administrators Cookbook

by Prashanth Jayaram, Ram Iyer
November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
566 pages
17h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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The PowerShell implementation of crontab is technically a wrapper, which encapsulates the crontab commands that work in Linux. Why use PowerShell to schedule jobs if the underlying functions are that of crontab? The reason would be the uniformity of usage, the consistency, and the object-oriented approach. If you know how to use PowerShell, that is all you need in order to be able to use crontab as well. That is the goal.

The New-CronTab cmdlet is used to define new tasks. The parameters available define the frequency with which the tasks are to be executed. The Cron jobs are executed with the same privileges as with which the New-CronTab cmdlet was executed. In other words, if you launched PowerShell as a super-user and ran ...

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