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Create an automated terminal command? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Newish to Linux and slowly learning lol. I recently got a podcast downloader working through rss with castget, works great. The command to get new eps that haven't been downloaded is castget -c.

Is there a way to automate this, so the command runs say every day at a set time?

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[–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

I generally like their outcome, but hate the boilerplate. I think I need somewhere around 20 lines over two different files which would otherwise be a one-liner in a cron file.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    Yeah. Once you spend an afternoon debugging a failing cron job, the 5 minutes needed to write the boilerplate starts to feel pretty ok though.

    I've never had to spend an afternoon debugging a failing systemd timer in the years since I made the switch.

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