I've a script which i want to schedule to run at 10:00 AM every morning using cron. I have no prior idea about using cron. Firstly I want to know whether it is possible to schedule the running of a perl script using cron or not.If it is possible kindly help me out. thanx in advance. 
  #!/usr/bin/perl
  
  use strict;
  use warnings;
  use LWP::Simple;
  use Email::Send;
  use Email::Send::Gmail;
  use Email::MIME::Creator;
  use IO::All;

    my $url = "http://abcd.com/search?q=%22MB%22&t=blogs&f=csv";
    my $file = "/Users/Abc/Desktop/MB.csv";

    my $status = mirror($url,$file);

    die "Cannot retrieve $url" unless is_success($status);


  my $email = Email::MIME->create(
       header        => [
                           From    => 'abcd@gmail.com'
                           To      => 'abc1@gmail.com',
                           Subject => 'ABCD',
                        ],

      attributes =>  {
            filename         =>"MB.csv",
            content_type     =>"application/csv",
            disposition      =>"attachment",
            Name             =>"/Users/Abc/Desktop/MB.csv",
          },

       body => io( "/Users/Abc/Desktop/MB.csv" )->all,
  );

  my $sender = Email::Send->new(
      
       {   mailer      => 'Gmail',
          
           mailer_args => [
                            username => 'abcd@gmail.com',
                            password => '1234qwerty',
                          ]
      }
  );

  eval { $sender->send($email) };
  die "Error sending email: $@" if $@;

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