Tag Archives: bash

Run cron job every 90 mins (minutes) – Linux Scheduling, Batch Automation, Scheduled Jobs

Run cron job every 90 mins Running a cron job is normally easy enough when you do not try and get over-complicated. Every hour or minute, or even every Monday is a simple task using the standard columns included in cron. Just to refresh you here are the first columns of a standard crontab for… Read More »

Bash – How to echo an exclamation mark in your bash scripts

Im a guy who likes SOLUTIONS to issues, not neccesarily wanting or needing to know the reasons why something happens…. so heres another one… Bash – How to echo an exclamation mark So you would think something simple like this : echo “abcde!abcde” BUT echo “abcde!abcde” -bash: !abcde”: event not found Damn… ok the solution… Read More »