Linux: Run Crontab Job Every 10 Minutes

This post will guide you how to run a cron job every 10 minutes in Linux system. How do I run a cron command every 10 minutes under Linux operating system. How to run a cron job every 15 minutes in my CentOS/RHEL/Ubuntu Linux system.

Run Cron Job Every 10 Minutes

The cron tool is used to run command or your own scripts at specific date and time, for example, run once a day, run once every hour and so on. and the Cron daemon will check each cron entries in the configuration file of /etc/crontab in your linux system. So if you want to run a cron job every 10 minutes, just do the following steps:

#1 Type the following command to edit /etc/crontab file.

#crontab -e

#2 adding the below cron record.

*/10 * * * * /fio.sh

Note:

# Example of job definition:

# .---------------- minute (0 - 59)

# | .------------- hour (0 - 23)

# | | .---------- day of month (1 - 31)

# | | | .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...

# | | | | .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat

# | | | | |

# * * * * * user-name command to be executed

#3 save and close the file.

Run Cron Job Every 15 Minutes

If you want to run a cron job every 15 minutes, you can try to add one of the below cron entires into your crontab file.

0,115,30,45 * * * * /fio.sh

Or

*/15 * * * * /fio.sh