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user-inactivated  ·  2811 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Looking for advice on custom ROMs

If you can do the terminal bullshit, you can have cron do the terminal bullshit for you.

1. Stick the stuff you do in the terminal into a file, starting with #!/bin/sh

2. chmod +x /path/to/terminal/bullshit

3. crontab -e, and add something like

    00 1 * * 1 /path/to/terminal/bullshit

Now you'll get your updates at 1 in the morning every Monday.





kleinbl00  ·  2811 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thing of it is, you know what all that gobbledygook means. I read it the way I read French. I mean, I get the language, I acknowledge the payload of knowledge, and I can no more speak it fluently than I can speak Japanese.

Perhaps one of these days. But not today.

user-inactivated  ·  2810 days ago  ·  link  ·  

In case anyone was wondering, the parameters are:

  <Minute>    <Hour>   <Day>  <Month>  <Weekday>  <Script To Excecute>

So, working from left to right:

- 00 is the top of the hour.

- 1 is 1 AM. 13 would be 1 PM.

- * is any calander day. (* is a wildcard and matches all possible values in the range).

- * is any calander month

- 1 is monday. 0 would be sunday, 2 would be tuesday, ect

user-inactivated  ·  2810 days ago  ·  link  ·  
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