Re: What means "*/5" in crontab file?

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 (=hour) column?

Every 4 hours? Or 4 times per hour?

Wolfgang

This means every hour divisible by 5 (* /5...) or 4 (* /4...)

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