How do I get a script to run every ten minutes?

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 10:55 -0800, Knute Johnson wrote:
> I need to run a script every ten minutes on the 0 minute.  Is there a 
> simple way to do this?

Use cron.  You can create a user specifc crontab file with
crontab -e

A simple crontab line which will do what you want is:

0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * some_command_with_arguments

or

*/10 * * * * some_command_with_arguments
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