10/3/02
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Unix Tools for Graphics Professionals
 
   
  • Creating cron jobs for repetitive tasks
    • Cron is program built to run other programs at specific time schedules
    • It can be quite handy for doing such things as batch-changing a set of files each day at a set time
    • It can also do simple tasks like checking on the status of a set of files to see if they were changed that day.
    • Setting up a script to run is fairly easy, but the easiest way is to use a GUI
    • Check out CronniX - http://www.koch-schmidt.de/cronnix/
      • Front end for your crontab file, the file that holds all cron information
      • Good front end, simple to use.
 
   
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