setup cron tab to specific time of during weekdays

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Nauman Bashir picture Nauman Bashir · Jan 21, 2013 · Viewed 65.8k times · Source

I am trying to setup a cron job on a Ubuntu server. We want the cron job to run the script at certain times of the day and on some specific days of the week. For example, we want to setup a cron job that runs the script with the following sequence:

Execute the script every 2 minutes from 9 am to 2 pm during the weekdays.

This is what I have been able to do so far:

*/2 09-14 * * * /path_to_script

What should I do for the weekdays?

Answer

ThanksForAllTheFish picture ThanksForAllTheFish · Jan 21, 2013

Same as you did for hours:

*/2 09-18 * * 1-5 /path_to_script

0 and 7 stand for Sunday
6 stands for Saturday
so, 1-5 means from Monday to Friday

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