Linux tutorial Run crontab Every 10 Minutes

Each cronjob has following syntax:

# +---------------- minute (0 - 59)
# |  +------------- hour (0 - 23)
# |  |  +---------- day of month (1 - 31)
# |  |  |  +------- month (1 - 12)
# |  |  |  |  +---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7)
# |  |  |  |  |
  *  *  *  *  *  command to be executed

To get crontab to run a task every 10 minutes you could type as follow
*/10 * * * * /path/to/command


Once you set */10, the cronjob will be executed each time that the minute can be divided by 10 without remainder. etc 10/10, 20/10 30/10

using the same idea, you can divide the * by 2 3 or 59.

If you wish to run every minute, just put



To get crontab to run a task every minutes you could type as follow
* * * * * /path/to/command

To get this to work in Solaris, use the following example
 0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * * /path/to/command