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Scheduling a job with crontab

In this exercise, we will create a simple Python job and automate this job using CRONTAB so that it runs every minute.

If you're unsure of how to use cron or crontab, refer to https://crontab.guru for more documentation.

This exercise is part of the course

Data Processing in Shell

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Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Verify that there are no CRON jobs currently scheduled
crontab ___
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