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Idiots guide to Cron Jobs

First create a script that one wants to run and note it absolute file location

Decide who you want to run as and run of the following commands

#Run as root
sudo crontab -e
#Run as logged in user
crontab -e

Use this to figure out how to get the cron job to run at the correct times

Just have a couple spaces and the path to the absolute file location of the script like here

0 0,6,12,18 * * * /path/to/mycommand