Running a cron job at 2:30 AM everyday

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user1856596 picture user1856596 · Feb 5, 2013 · Viewed 467.7k times · Source

How to configure a cron job to run every night at 2:30? I know how to make it run at 2, but not 2:30.

Answer

JoG picture JoG · Feb 5, 2013 
crontab -e

add:

30 2 * * * /your/command

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