Difference between revisions of "Run a cron job every 10 minutes"

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

Latest revision as of 17:13, 14 January 2013

Layout of crontab[edit]

# +---------------- 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

To get cron to run a task every 10 minutes, some Unix's allow this:

*/10 * * * * /path/to/command