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How to use Zeit, a graphical tool for scheduled tasks and temporary tasks in Linux, this article introduces the corresponding analysis and solutions in detail, hoping to help more partners who want to solve this problem to find a more simple and feasible method.

Zeit is an open source GUI tool that schedules jobs through "crontab" and "at". It is written in C++ and released under GPL-3.0 license. Is an easy-to-use tool that provides a simple interface to schedule one-time jobs or iterative jobs. Zeit also has an alarm clock and timer to notify users by sound.

Characteristics of Zeit

Schedule, modify, or delete CRON jobs.

Schedule or delete work.

Schedule, modify or delete timers / alerts.

Modify the environment variable.

How to install Zeit under Linux

For Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based distributions, you can install the stable version by adding a PPA repository, as mentioned below.

Linuxmi@linuxmi:~/www.linuxmi.com$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:blaze/main linuxmi@linuxmi:~/www.linuxmi.com$ sudo apt update linuxmi@linuxmi:~/www.linuxmi.com$ sudo apt install zeit

You can also try the development version of Zeit by adding the following PPA repositories.

Linuxmi@linuxmi:~/www.linuxmi.com$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:blaze/dev linuxmi@linuxmi:~/www.linuxmi.com$ sudo apt update linuxmi@linuxmi:~/www.linuxmi.com$ sudo apt install zeit

For other Linux distributions, you can build it from the source code shown below.

Linuxmi@linuxmi:~/www.linuxmi.com$ git clone https://github.com/loimu/zeit.git linuxmi@linuxmi:~/www.linuxmi.com$ mkdir build & & cd build linuxmi@linuxmi:~/www.linuxmi.com$ cmake. Linuxmi@linuxmi:~/www.linuxmi.com$ make-j2 linuxmi@linuxmi:~/www.linuxmi.com$. / src/zeit

To start Zeit, just type.

Linuxmi@linuxmi:~/www.linuxmi.com$ zeit &

Use the at command to execute aperiodic commands

Non-periodic commands allow scheduling commands to run once. Yeah, that's it. It uses the "at" command. Go to View → Select aperiodic commands (VIEW → Select NONPERIODIC COMMANDS) or press "CTRL + N".

Select add Command Add Command, as shown in the following figure, and then add an entry. I'm planning a command to run at 15:23. This command creates an empty log file in the "www.linuxmi.com" folder and adds today's date to the file name, as shown below.

NOW=$ (date +% F); touch / home/linuxmi/www.linuxmi.com/log_$ {NOW} .txt

Now an entry has been added. You cannot modify the scheduled command, but you can use Delete Command to delete the command before running it.

Delete command

At 15:23, the command will run as scheduled and an empty log file will be created.

The command was executed successfully

Use Cron jobs to run scheduled tasks

To schedule Cron jobs, select recurring tasks periodic task or press CTRL + P. By default, zeit starts with scheduled tasks.

Schedule scheduled tasks

Enter a description, command, and scheduled time, and then press OK to add the entry to crontab.

Schedule commands to run

Now my work schedule is at 15:42 every day.

Schedule a task

You can use "crontab-l" to check the crontab, where entries are automatically added.

Linuxmi@linuxmi:~/www.linuxmi.com$ crontab-l

List Cron work

In addition to "at" and "crontab", there are two functions that use alarm clocks / timers to remind us by calling sound. This entry will also be added to the crontab.

Set the alert to a scheduled task

This is the answer to the question about how to use Zeit, a graphical tool for scheduled tasks and temporary tasks in Linux. I hope the above content can be of some help to you. If you still have a lot of doubts to be solved, you can follow the industry information channel for more related knowledge.

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