Glossary: Command Line for IT: Bash and PowerShell

crontab

Also written: crontab -l, crontab -e, crontab -, cron table

A user's table of cron jobs: five time fields (minute, hour, day of month, month, day of week) and a command on each line. crontab -l lists it, crontab -e edits it, and crontab - replaces the whole table with what comes in through a pipe.