Setting up Cron on OS X

Cron Setup

1 Start up Terminal
2 Type "cd ~/" to go to your home folder
3 Type "touch .bash_profile" to create your new file.
4 Edit .bash_profile with your favorite editor (or you can just type "open -e .bash_profile" to open it in TextEdit.
5 Type ". .bash_profile" to reload .bash_profile and update any functions you add.
6 Add "export EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano" to make nano default editor
7 crontab -e
8 Add Follwing template:

# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# |  .------------- hour (0 - 23)
# |  |  .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# |  |  |  .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
# |  |  |  |  .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7)  OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
# |  |  |  |  |
# *  *  *  *  *  command to be executed