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Duck Duck Go's instant answer for "crontab cheat sheet"
# Commands are executed by cron when the minute, hour, and month of year
# fields match the current time, and at least one of the two day fields
# (day of month, or day of week) match the current time. A field may be
# an asterisk (*), which will always match.
#
# Fields in order:
# minute (0-59)
# hour (0-23)
# day of month (1-31)
# month (1-12 or first three letters)
# day of week (0-7 or first three letters; 0 or 7 is Sunday)
# Run every Tuesday at 2:30am
30 2 * * tue /path/to/command
# or
30 2 * * 2 /path/to/command
# Run every 10 minutes
*/10 * * * * /path/to/command
# Run every 2 hours, on the half-hour
30 */2 * * * /path/to/command
# Run every 2 hours on the half hour, but only on weekdays
30 */2 * * 1-5 /path/to/command
# Run at 12:05, 13:05, ..., and 18:05
5 12-18 * * * /path/to/command
# Run at 12:05, 14:05, 16:05, and 18:05
5 12-18/2 * * * /path/to/command
# Run on the first day of every month, at 12:00am
0 0 1 * * /path/to/command
# Run on the first day of every third month, at 12:00am
0 0 1 */3 * /path/to/command
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