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Schedule a job using Crontab

I would like to execute my script at 17.30 and 23.00 using crontab, could anybody help me out!!

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If you can change 17.30 to either 17.00 or 18.00 you can do it with a simple cron entry, e.g.

Code:

00 17,23 * * * /path/to/job

Otherwise, one way would be to schedule the job for every 30 minutes between 17.00 and 23.00 and test for the two required times within your job.

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