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Is there a way to have Linux run a command every X minutes?

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Mar 15, 20261836 views

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I'm using RSync with my buddy just for testing and general geekery, we want to somehow schedule the sync task to run every X time. Using the terminal, we run the command and it works. What can we use to run a script every X time? How can we program something like a Windows .bat file for Linux? Our …

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