Crontab and testing a command to be executed

Question

I\'m quite new to cron and crontab.

I\'ve edited the crontab file and I need to execute manually one of commands so I can try it and test it beforehand. How do I do that

Answer 1

To execute a script "manually" you first have to make it executable by doing:

$ chmod +x yourScriptName

Then do either

$ ./yourScriptName

if you execute it from its path or

$ /full/path/to/yourScriptName

from anywhere.