Planning a Linux Cron Job

Linux has a scheduling service, called cron, which is used for recurring jobs. The scheduler service, crond, works with files called CronTab, to schedule tasks.

As you might imagine, this is, again, very text-based. Luckily, the PowerShell team created a demo module that is very helpful. It is called CronTab.

Getting ready

Install and start PowerShell Core.

How to do it...

Please perform the following steps:

1. Start by discovering any existing cmdlets, as follows:

# Again - no native cmdlets
Get-Command *ScheduledTask*

2. Again, we need to work...