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

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Wed Feb 11 19:10:18 UTC 2009


Lubbers, Nicholas wrote:
> Use cron for this.
> 
> crontab -e
> 10 * * * * /path/to/script

Won't that run every hour on the 10 minutes (e.g. 1:10, 2:10, 3:10),
etc, but not every 10 minutes?  It's possible I'm wrong, but I think the
right syntax is:

*/10 * * * * /path/to/script

Matt Flaschen




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