Daily commit script using Anacron or Cron - Ubuntu only

My implementation of the Daily-Git-Commit in bash, using anacron or crontab: https://github.com/JareBear12418/Daily-Git-Commit
All credit to him.

• Download the code or fork and clone.
• Change the bot paths to your folder paths in the bot.sh file
  • bot.sh -> line 5 and 6, with the path of your cloned folder

  echo "$info" >> /home/your-user/Desktop/projects/daily-commit-bot/output.txt
  cd /home/your-user/Desktop/projects/daily-commit-bot/
  

• Proceed to the desired configuration

Using anacron and the ~./local folder

• create ~/.local/etc/cron.daily and ~/.var/spool/anacron
  mkdir -p ~/.local/etc/cron.daily ~/.var/spool/anacron
  • Place the script in ~/.local/etc/cron.daily using mv or cp
    
  • If the name of your script is bot.sh, better to remove the .sh, leaving it as "bot". The extension causes problems using anacron. You can do it with mv bot.sh bot
  • Remember to make the script executable with sudo chmod +x bot.sh
• create anacrontab config file in ~/.local/etc
  touch anacrontab
  
• Add this to the anacrontab file: using vim, nano or open

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
1  0  daily.script    run-parts /home/your-user/.local/etc/cron.daily/

Note: "daily.script" can be anything you want. Like "cat" or whatever.

• Verify everything works (nothing will happen if no errors):

anacron -T -t ~/.local/etc/anacrontab \
-S /home/your-user/.var/spool/anacron

• Ensure that it runs with your local configuration (-fn forces anacron to run your cron, so executes the script, and does a commit, just for testing purposes)

anacron -fn -t /home/your-user/.local/etc/anacrontab \
-S /home/your-user/.var/spool/anacron

• Leave this as your last configuration

anacron -t /home/your-user/.local/etc/anacrontab \
-S /home/your-user/.var/spool/anacron

All this configuration can be found at: https://opensource.com/article/21/2/linux-automation
More information about anacrontab can be found at: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/anacron-command-in-linux-with-examples/

Using crontab -e (easier)

• Using crontab -e and adding these lines (for a push at 16:00 & 21:00)

0 16 * * * /bin/bash /home/your-user/Desktop/projects/daily-commit-bot/bot.sh
0 21 * * * /bin/bash /home/your-user/Desktop/projects/daily-commit-bot/bot.sh

The dream