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Old 10-08-2015
No I didn't miss it. You seem to have missed that I wrote
"insert a second line..." because you already had the line from 7-11 and you need 2 lines to specify what you need.
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Old 10-08-2015
i will check and let you know. Thanks Don
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Old 10-08-2015
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Originally Posted by zaxxon
No I didn't miss it. You seem to have missed that I wrote
"insert a second line..." because you already had the line from 7-11 and you need 2 lines to specify what you need.
The crontab entry:
Code:
*/5  7-11 * * * my-command

along with a second line:
Code:
0-30/5 11 * * * my-command

would run my-command twice about every five minutes from 11:00 through 11:30, and run it at ~11:35, ~11:40, ~11:45, ~11:50, and ~11:55 when it is not wanted.
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Old 10-08-2015
Ah right, missed he had to change 11 to 10 on his line, just saw you mentioned it earlier anyway already. Thanks for the hint.

To not confuse the OP:

You need one line to cover 7:00 - 10:59 and second line to cover 11:00 - 11:30.

With the lines Don has given you will be on the safe side.
# 12  
Old 10-08-2015
Hi Both, Thanks for your reply but here comes the next challange i want to run this cron from 11AM to till next day 7AM for every 30 minutes ( Monday to frinday) how to achieve this ??

i tried this below and cron says the error in timings

Code:
*/30  11-7 * * 1-5 My-Command


Last edited by zaxxon; 10-08-2015 at 06:20 AM.. Reason: code tags
# 13  
Old 10-08-2015
Is this now with a required 30 minute interval or stil 5 minutes? And what about Friday, shall it run til Saturday morning 7 AM?
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# 14  
Old 10-08-2015
30 minutes from 11AM to nextday monring 7AM
 
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