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{
    "date": "2018-02-20",
    "layout": "post",
    "oldurls": ["technology/2018/2/20/crontroll/"],
    "tags": ["Technology", "Showcase", "Bash", "CLI"],
    "title": "Crontroll: A cronjob controller"
}
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Enabling and disabling cronjobs is so annoying and really hard to do from a script. That's why I wrote a small shell script called [crontroll](https://github.com/Neo-Oli/crontroll).

## Examples

<pre>
<code>$ crontroll status updatedb
enabled: updatedb; 0 3 * * * updatedb

$ crontroll disable updatedb

$ crontroll status updatedb
disabled: updatedb; 0 3 * * * updatedb

$ crontroll enable updatedb

$ crontroll list
<span class="color2">[x] apt-cron</span>
<span class="color7">[ ] at</span>
<span class="color2">[x] backup</span>
<span class="color2">[x] greg</span>
<span class="color7">[ ] mail</span>
<span class="color2">[x] tracking</span>
<span class="color2">[x] updatedb</span>
<span class="color2">[x] vdirsyncer</span>
</code>
</pre>

## Setting up cronjobs

Instead of writing directly to your crontab file, create a file per cronjob in `~/.cron`.

### Example

```
~/.cron $ cat updatedb
0 3 * * * updatedb -U ~/drive
```

Then run `crontroll reload` to enable your new cronjob.

## Download

Repository: https://github.com/Neo-Oli/crontroll
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