Run a cron job every 10 minutes - Revision history

Stuart: /* Layout of crontab */

2013-01-14T17:13:55Z

‎Layout of crontab

Stuart at 14:45, 4 January 2013

2013-01-04T14:45:30Z

Stuart: /* Layout of cron */

2013-01-04T14:45:11Z

‎Layout of cron

Stuart: Created page with "===Layout of cron===

 # +---------------- minute (0 - 59) # |  +------------- hour (0 - 23) # |  |  +---------- day of month (1 - 31) # |  |  |  +------- month (1 - 12) #..."

2013-01-04T14:44:42Z

Created page with "===Layout of cron=== <pre> # +---------------- minute (0 - 59) # | +------------- hour (0 - 23) # | | +---------- day of month (1 - 31) # | | | +------- month (1 - 12) #..."

New page

===Layout of cron===
<pre>
# +---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# | +------------- hour (0 - 23)
# | | +---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# | | | +------- month (1 - 12)
# | | | | +---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7)
# | | | | |
* * * * * /path/to/command
</pre>

To get crontab to run a task every 10 minutes you could type as follow
*/10 * * * * /path/to/command

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 </pre>
-To get cron to run a task every 10 minutes you could type this:
+To get cron to run a task every 10 minutes, some Unix's allow this:
   */10 * * * * /path/to/command

@@ Line 10: / Line 10: @@
 </pre>
-To get cron to run a task every 10 minutes you could type as follow
+To get cron to run a task every 10 minutes you could type this:
   */10 * * * * /path/to/command