Bash script to enable a custom CRON job for your DEV environment (Drupal)

By hari, 9 November, 2023

Sometime our local setup doesn't have the cron scheduler to test the real case cron actions, in this case we have to run the `drush cron` manually. Instead of doing this we have to write some script to run `drush cron` command in certain interval.

Create a bash script and you can name it like custom-cron.sh add below code into there.

#!/bin/bash

# Define your function here
cron_function() {
    /var/www/html/vendor/bin/drush cron --root=/var/www/html
}

# Infinite loop to execute the function every 30 seconds
while true
do
    cron_function
    sleep 30
done

add executable permission for that

chmod +x custom-cron.sh

then run the bash script on terminal
sh ./custom-cron.sh

Now you can see the cron running in every 30 seconds. if you need to increase the time then change the sleep time in the bash script.

Bash script to enable a custom CRON job for your DEV environment (Drupal)

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