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crontab2english.pl - Extremely useful utility -- in Perl, of course -- for ensuring that you have the correct time specification in your crontab. For instance, after downloading, copying to /usr/local/bin, chmod'ing, and stripping the file extension I can do:
cwinters@www cwinters $ crontab2english
...
Command: (line 7)
Run: /usr/bin/wget -O
.../openinteract-cvsroot-`/bin/date +%Y-%m-%d`.tar.bz2
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/openinteract-cvsroot.tar.bz2
At: 8:10am every day
Command: (line 8)
Run: perl /home/cwinters/bin/cleanup_backups /home/cwinters/oi_backup
At: 0:10am on the first of every month
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