<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://degoldschmidt.github.io/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://degoldschmidt.github.io/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-07-28T19:10:43+02:00</updated><id>https://degoldschmidt.github.io/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Dennis Goldschmidt</title><subtitle>Dennis Goldschmidt — postdoctoral researcher in systems neuroscience at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland.</subtitle><author><name>Dennis Goldschmidt</name></author><entry><title type="html">Unix recipes 001: Setting Up a Cron Job for Task Scheduling</title><link href="https://degoldschmidt.github.io/blog/unix001-cronjob.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Unix recipes 001: Setting Up a Cron Job for Task Scheduling" /><published>2017-05-13T20:47:04+02:00</published><updated>2017-05-13T20:47:04+02:00</updated><id>https://degoldschmidt.github.io/blog/unix001-cronjob</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://degoldschmidt.github.io/blog/unix001-cronjob.html"><![CDATA[<p>Like in nature, programming tasks are often performed in a periodic pattern.
Here, I explain how to use cron jobs to schedule reoccuring tasks on a
Unix-based system.</p>

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