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Ezcron

Ezcron is a CLI tool, helping you deal with cron expression easier.

Feature

• Creating cron expression with prompts
• Translate cron expression into human-friendly language
• Show the next execute time
• And more (keep working) ...

DEMO

Create cron expression like a boss 😎

See more DEMO at example

CRON Expression Format

Only support 5 fields.

# ┌───────────── minute (0 - 59)
# │ ┌───────────── hour (0 - 23)
# │ │ ┌───────────── day of month (1 - 31)
# │ │ │ ┌───────────── month (1 - 12)
# │ │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of  week (0 - 6) (Sunday to Saturday)
# │ │ │ │ │
# │ │ │ │ │
# │ │ │ │ │
# * * * * *
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Field name     Mandatory?   Allowed values    Allowed special characters
----------     ----------   --------------    --------------------------
Minutes        Yes          0-59              * / , -
Hours          Yes          0-23              * / , -
Day of month   Yes          1-31              * / , -
Month          Yes          1-12 or JAN-DEC   * / , -
Day of week    Yes          0-6 or SUN-SAT    * / , -

Installing

go get -u github.com/rueyaa332266/ezcron

Usage

Usage:
  ezcron [flags]
  ezcron [command]

Available Commands:
  expression  Create a cron expression
  help        Help about any command
  next        Return next execute time
  translate   Translate into human-friendly language

Flags:
  -h, --help   help for ezcron

Use "ezcron [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Example

Create cron expression

$ ezcron expression

Five types of schedule are available.

• Time schedule:

  Create a schedule in time intervals.

  • every_miniute {X_MINUTE}
  • every_hour {X_HOUR}

  

• Daily schedule:

  Create a daily schedule at specific time.

  • every_day
  • every_day at {HH:MM}

  

• Weekly schedule:

  Create a weekly schedule on specific weekday at specific time.

  • on_every {WEEKDAY}
  • on_every {WEEKDAY} at {HH:MM}

  

• Monthly schedule

  Create a monthly schedule on specific monthday at specific time.

  • on {MONTHDAY} of_every_month
  • on {MONTHDAY} of_every_month at {HH:MM}
  • on {MONTHDAY} of_every {X_MONTH}
  • on {MONTHDAY} of_every {X_MONTH} at {HH:MM}

  

• Yearly schedule

  Create a yearly schedule on specific date at specific time.

  • in_every {MONTH} {MONTHDAY}
  • in_every {MONTH} {MONTHDAY} at {HH:MM}

  

Translate cron expression

$ ezcron translate "* * * * *"
At every minute

It also works when passing the cron expression by pipe.

$ echo "* * * * *" | ezcron
At every minute

Show next execute time

$ ezcron next "* * * * *"
Next execute time: 2020-05-10 22:35:00 +0900 JST