I am looking for clarification with the cron tab that I am working with.
some job 1 * * * *
some job 1 */1 * * *
Are those jobs the same? The job will run the first minute every hour.
Prehaps some one could clarify the difference between * and */x in crontab.
Yes those are the same. From the man page (man 5 crontab):
A field may be an asterisk (*), which always stands for ``first-last''.
[...]
Ranges can include "steps", so "1-9/2" is the same as "1,3,5,7,9".
Therefore */x means the whole range (depending on the position of the *) covered with steps of x.
In your case, for the "hour" position, the first-to-last range is 0 to 23. So * = 0-23, and */1 = "0,1,2,...,22,23", which is exactly the same.
