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[–] DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Others have covered the definition of a corn dog.

A "cron dog" however, is when you use cron to schedule a dog command, which is an updated version of the cat command installed via the moreutils package that provides additional features such as colorized output and line numbering, making it more versatile.

THIS HAS BEEN A DUMB LINUX FACT

[–] cron@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago

Thank you, that was the answer I was waiting for.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

"Mail the sysadmin every 5 minutes" looks like an incredibly useful script to know.