How to run crontab job every week on Sunday

Question

I\'m trying to figure out how to run a crontab job every week on Sunday. I think the following should work, but I\'m not sure if I understand correctly. Is the following cor

Answer 1

Following is the format of the crontab file.

{minute} {hour} {day-of-month} {month} {day-of-week} {user} {path-to-shell-script}

So, to run each sunday at midnight (Sunday is 0 usually, 7 in some rare cases) :

0 0 * * 0 root /path_to_command