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I have a script and I want to run it every 2 minutes by Cron

how can I do this ?

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I have a script and I want to run it every 2 minutes by Cron

how can I do this ?

thanks

Alice

2 * * * * <your_script_path>

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man crontab
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2 * * * * <your_script_path>

use
man crontab
I'm afraid this will only run the cron script at 2 minutesd past each hour

To run it *every* 2 minutes you need something like:

0,2,4,6,8,<etc> * * * * <path_to_script>

On some versions of cron you can use a short hand

*/2 * * * * <path_to_script>
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