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Cron Jobs

All cron jobs managed via crontab -e. To list current jobs: crontab -l.

Active Jobs

Schedule Command Purpose
0 0 * * * sort-screenshots Sort new screenshots into YYYY/MM-Mon/ folders

Notes

  • Cron uses a minimal PATH (/usr/bin:/bin), so always use full paths to binaries (e.g. /Users/vsb/.local/bin/uv not just uv).
  • Output not captured by redirects gets delivered as local mail (/var/mail/vsb), which triggers the "You have mail" message on shell startup. Redirect both stdout and stderr to a log file to avoid this.
  • macOS also supports launchd (plist files in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/), which handles sleep/wake rescheduling better, but cron is simpler for these jobs.

Full crontab

0 0 * * * /Users/vsb/dotfiles/scripts/sort-screenshots >> /tmp/sort-screenshots.log 2>&1