⏳ cron and python

Sat 4 Jun, 2022

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jamie@moon:~/Documents/Learning/cron$ vim rand.py

rand.py:

import random
from datetime import datetime

now = datetime.now()
num = random.randint(1 , 100)
with open('/tmp/rand.txt', 'a' ) as f:
        f.write( '{} - with a random number of {}\n'.format(now, num) )

then:

jamie@moon:~/Documents/Learning/cron$ crontab -e

Include:

* * * * * /usr/bin/python3 /home/jamie/Documents/Learning/cron/rand.py