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title: "How would you schedule a task in Linux?"  
description: "How would you schedule a task in Linux?"  
author: "Mukul Goenka"  
published: 2022-04-15  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96839/how-would-you-schedule-a-task-in-linux  
category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["troubleshooting", "linux"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How would you schedule a task in Linux?

How would you [schedule](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2342/the-launch-of-nasa-s-artemis-1-moon-mission-is-still-scheduled-on-november-16) a [task](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2470/bank-of-israel-wants-to-manage-stable-crypto-assets) in Linux?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

![How would you schedule a task in Linux?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/27c0f90d-56eb-4d80-b7cb-d4723634888f/images/fba1cb04-7791-4bbf-8697-5e24b31970d8.jpeg)\

- Certain actions must be performed periodically when utilising a UNIX-based operating system. It takes a long time and is inefficient to do things manually every time. **UNIX has task schedulers** built in to help with this problem. These task schedulers work in the same way as a smart alarm clock. The operating system will conduct the predetermined task when the alarm goes off.
- Cron daemon (default task scheduler) and at are two basic but powerful tools that come with [**Linux**](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/96818/explain-file-permission-in-linux) (more suitable for one-time task scheduling).

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