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Script to check a folder, print the files then delete those files

I am looking for some guidance on creating a script that will check a specific folder, print all documents (if any) and then delete those documents. I would also like to run this script as a cron job. ...
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Ubuntu crontab php not working

Yes, I have read many, many documentations but I can't get it to work. I have a simple single php file which I want to run once or twice in a minute. My php file is called: cronjob_refresh.php and I'm ...
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ipset not executing from crontab

I have this txt files that contains IPs, one per line of file, that I want to block using ipset. I have this bash script that essentially reads from the plain txt file and constructs an array. Then ...
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how do I run a cron job with a specific user?

My cron and scripting skills are very poor, but I need to run a job every 5 minutes by user 'cpc'. So I created a script and left it at /root. My crontab -e entry about it is: 0-59/5 * * * * ...
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Cron file syntax checker/validator script

Does anyone know a script (bash, perl, php ...) to validate the syntax of crontab files? I found this http://www.intuitive.com/wicked/showscript.cgi?053-verifycron.sh but just Vixie cron notation is ...
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Why does this fail as crontab but works as script [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What’s wrong with these two cron job’s? I want to print a formatted output from a file containing lines of date, time, long number, and long number. I set LC_NUMERIC to ...
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Check if script is started by cron, rather than invoked manually

Is there any variable that cron set when it's running a program ? If the script is running by cron, I'll skip some parts; otherwise invoke those parts. How can I know if the bash script is started by ...
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In linux, would it be possible to run a script every day 3 minutes later than the previous day?

My first solution to this was to execute date +%Y%m%d%H%M and put that format of numbers into a file, and run the script every minute from cron. Then if the date from the file matches the date ...
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grep searchstring /etc/crontab strange behavior in BASH script

I am working on a BASH script which creates automated backups via the crontab. I am trying to use myVARIABLE=`grep backup /etc/crontab` to return lines containing "backup" if an entry has already ...
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Anacron job complains “Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display”

I'm trying to make a simple weekly Anacron job that backs up my computer if I click yes on the dialog. The script I wrote works fine if run manually, but when Anacron runs it, nothing happens and I ...
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Run a script via cron every other week

I've done quite a bit of research in how to do this, and I see there's no direct way in cron to run a job, say, every other Thursday. Right now, I'm leaning toward making a script that will just run ...