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Setting up crontab on Mac OS X
Taken from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15395479/why-ive-got-no-crontab-entry-on-os-x-when-using-vim
1- In Terminal: crontab -e.
2- Press i to go into vim's insert mode.
3- Type your cron job, for example:
30 * * * * /usr/bin/curl --silent --compressed http://example.com/crawlink.php
4- Press Esc to exit vim's insert mode.
5- Type ZZ (must be capital letters).
6- Verify by using crontab -l.
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