Recipephpmagentoecommercecms

Run Magento 2 Cron

Required cron job for Magento 2 e-commerce stores.

Magento 2 relies heavily on cron for indexing, emails, currency rate updates, and catalog price rules. This command processes the Magento task queue. It is critical for the proper functioning of any Magento 2 store.

Cron Schedule

Every Minute* * * * *

Runs every minute of every hour, every day.

Learn more about Every Minute

Command to Run

Copy and paste this command into your crontab or automation script

cd /path/to/magento && bin/magento cron:run

This command will run according to the cron schedule above.

Implementation Examples

Here are code examples for implementing this cron job in different programming languages:

Unix/Linux Crontab* * * * * /path/to/script.sh

Python (with schedule library)schedule.every(1).minutes.do(job)

Node.js (with node-cron)

cron.schedule('* * * * *', () => {
  console.log('Running every minute');
});

Go (with robfig/cron)c.AddFunc("* * * * *", func() { fmt.Println("Run every minute") })

GitHub Actions Workflow- cron: "* * * * *"

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