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On Linux and UNIX-like systems, a program called cron periodically executes user-defined commands in the background. It is used for system maintenance tasks such as refreshing or removing caches, rotating and deleting old log files, and so on.
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Lenz, M. (2017). Silent-Cron, a Cron Wrapper. In: Perl 6 Fundamentals . Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2899-9_6
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