I was looking for a way to schedule jobs and yes windows has a task scheduler built in, however I wanted a bit more flexibility and less complexity.
On the unix platform you can use cron. It is a scheduler that uses a simple format to define the time when the process should start and the process command.
I was going to look at using it when I thought about the parsing that would be needed, I dod not want a system that much that I would write a cron parser.
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