Cron is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems that allows you to run processes at specific periods of time. In this post I’ll show you how to run a cronjob every 10 minutes.
The crontab format is minute – hour – day of month – month – day of week followed by the command to run. You can also use * which matches any value.
To fire a cronjob command every 10 minutes we will schedule it to run every hour at 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50th minute:
0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /path/to/command
We can also simplify the syntax like this:
*/10 * * * * /path/to/command
The */10 token will fire the cronjob every 10th minute.
