Run two commands with a crontab

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J.Zil picture J.Zil · Aug 21, 2013 · Viewed 20.7k times · Source

I have a quick question. I need to add a cron to my debain crontab using an automated shell script and I need the cron to do two things:

  1. cd into /etc/application
  2. run the command "scrapy crawl"

crontab -l | { /bin/cat; /bin/echo "* 3 * * * cd /etc/application"; } | crontab -

How do I get it to also run the scrapy crawl command?

Answer

Jim Lewis picture Jim Lewis · Aug 21, 2013

You can have multiple commands in a single crontab line. Just separate them with semicolons:

crontab -l | { /bin/cat; /bin/echo "* 3 * * * cd /etc/application ; scrapy crawl"; } | crontab -

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