Re: What means "*/5" in crontab file?
- From: Hermann Peifer <peifer@xxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 21:19:30 +0200
Wolfgang Meister wrote:
In the crontab I found some repetition values with a slash like
*/5
or
*/4
What does that mean e.g. in the second (=hpur) column?
Every 4 hours? Or 4 times per hour?
Wolfgang
man 5 crontab tells me:
> Ranges can include "steps", so "1-9/2" is the same as "1,3,5,7,9".
Hermann
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