In this recipe, we will discuss the installation details of a PowerShell module to manage Cron jobs using PowerShell on a Linux machine.

There are times when there is a need for performing administrative tasks or scheduling a script to execute automatically at given time. Linux distros, by default, come with a scheduling utility, called, Crontab, which allows any given tasks to be run automatically in the background at a given time. Cron is a time-based scheduler program. It generates events based on the definition in the crontab file.