Set a cron every certain hours between certain hours

Question

How can I set a cron to run every 2 hours between 8 am and 5 pm for example? Is this possible?

score 101 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 21 '18 at 02:50

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Actually, Alex's (former) solution will run every minute, every 2 hours between 8 am and 3pm. The right solution is:

0 8-17/2 * * * /path/command

Or even:

0 8,10,12,14,16 * * * /path/command

Which of course looks less nice, but still does what requested...

edited Nov 21 '18 at 02:50

answered Aug 27 '12 at 21:43

DarkAjax

Alex · Answer 2 · 2014-07-17T16:30:24.137

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0 8-17/2 * * * your_command.sh

edited Jul 17 '14 at 16:30

answered Apr 11 '12 at 17:47

Alex

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