cron

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cron

Summary

cron is a standard UNIX utility or command[1]. cron ranks in the top 0.81% of standard_unix_utility_or_command entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,109 views/month, #1 of 124).[2]

Key Facts

  • cron's instance of is recorded as standard UNIX utility or command[3].
  • cron's instance of is recorded as job scheduler[4].
  • cron's instance of is recorded as daemon[5].
  • cron's programmed in is recorded as Q15777[6].
  • cron's operating system is recorded as Unix-like operating system[7].
  • cron's Commons category is recorded as Cron[8].
  • cron's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/025t72w[9].
  • cron's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/cron[10].
  • cron's name in kana is recorded as クロンタブ[11].
  • cron's different from is recorded as Cron[12].
  • cron's Debian stable package is recorded as cron[13].
  • cron's schematic is recorded as Crontab.png[14].
  • cron's schematic is recorded as Crontabks4.th.png[15].
  • cron's schematic is recorded as Crontab (en français - in French).png[16].
  • cron's Golden ID is recorded as Cron-YKBEA[17].
  • cron's Gentoo Wiki article is recorded as Cron[18].
  • cron's Gentoo Wiki article is recorded as Cron/de[19].
  • cron's Gentoo Wiki article is recorded as Cron/es[20].
  • cron's Gentoo Wiki article is recorded as Cron/fr[21].
  • cron's Gentoo Wiki article is recorded as Cron/it[22].
  • cron's Gentoo Wiki article is recorded as Cron/hu[23].
  • cron's Gentoo Wiki article is recorded as Cron/ru[24].
  • cron's Gentoo Wiki article is recorded as Cron/fa[25].
  • cron's Gentoo Wiki article is recorded as Cron/zh-cn[26].
  • cron's Gentoo Wiki article is recorded as Cron/ja[27].

Why It Matters

cron ranks in the top 0.81% of standard_unix_utility_or_command entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,109 views/month, #1 of 124).[2] cron has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] cron is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . golden.com. Retrieved . golden.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). cron. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/cron
MLA “cron.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/cron.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_cron_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{cron}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/cron}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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