Re: execute command every 80 minutes, (crontab-like)



Davide Bianchi wrote:
On 2006-11-28, Yakov <iler.ml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What if I want to execute some command (from crontab) every N
minutes

The syntax */n in crontab means 'every n' of wathever field is placed in,
it's usually used for the day/hours/minutes field (so every n
day/hours/minutes). man crontab for more info.

Looks like */n with values of n>60 are treated same as 0, as once per
hour.
So */80 does not in fact execute once every 80 minutes.

Yakov

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