How to configure a complex launchd CalendarInterval

launchdplist

I have a job that needs to run every hour between 09:00-15:00 M-F. How do I do that in a launchd plist file?

Best Answer

You'll have to explicitly create a record for every hour from 9 to 15 for every day from Monday to Friday: 35 records. The cron utility has a far more compact format. With it your use case would be written as 0 9-15 * * 1-5. LaunchControl is a utility which creates launchd StartCalendarInterval records from cron time descriptions:

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