sample-cron

# Copyright (c) 2012 John Krauss

# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
# as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of
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# Edit your crontab using crontab -e , appending the following lines:
# Add the paths containing your wget, pdftotext, and python to the path:

PATH=/path/to/python/env:/path/to/other/bins:${PATH}

#  Make sure to subsitute `/path/to/nypd-crash-data-bandaid/' with the actual path.

@daily pushd /path/to/nypd-crash-data-bandaid/ && ./bandaid.sh >> log.txt && popd

# This will run once a day, downloading one file to check whether
# there is new data.  If there is, it will download all the files,
# parse them, and place them in a directory for the month.