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by txutxu 1411 days ago
So nice!

For prior art (not GPT-3 based) in debian/ubuntu based distributions:

    /usr/share/doc/cron/examples/crontab2english.pl
I use to use it like:

    perl /usr/share/doc/cron/examples/crontab2english.pl /etc/cron.d/myfile

Also prior to crontab.guru:

    $ head -2  /usr/share/doc/cron/examples/crontab2english.pl
    #!/usr/bin/perl
    #Time-stamp: "2001-07-29 16:07:28 MDT"
21 years ago, more people did prefer english to cron :)
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I've yet to be shown by someone on the internet there isn't a built-in *nix tool for everything.

Sometimes I am astonished what has been sitting in my directories all these years.

The biggest one probably being the 15 minutes it took to learn how to write systemd service files, versus using <language-specific-process-monitor-and-daemon>.