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crontab settings for every 10 min eveyday?

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*/10 * * * * $HOME/script.sh

Will this be the cron setting if I want to run the script.sh file in every 10 min eveyday?

Can someone pls confirm?

Thanks in advance
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What you have posted looks fine...

but some unix systems don't support */10 method...
Try what ever you have posted, if it don't work, then change it with the below line..

0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * $HOME/script.sh

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