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Asked: 2026-06-02T08:58:56+00:00

I want to set up a cron job which will execute a command every

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I want to set up a cron job which will execute a command every hour. However, I want that this command should be started at 10 A.M and should run every hour till 4 P.M. This job is to run daily between these times. The command is nothing but a call to a Perl script. Following crontab entry runs fine and invokes the script every hour

* */1 * * * cd path_to_file; perl file.pl > path_to_logs/log.txt

Is there a way to limit the timings of this cron job so that it runs only between 10 A.M and 4 P.M ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    man 5 crontab is your friend. (Your example does not do what you claim it does; /1 is the default skip and therefore redundant, and that spec therefore runs once per minute due to the leading * instead of 0.)

    0 10-15 * * * your command here

    (I used 15, because it occurs to me that “between 10 and 4” is an exclusive range so you don’t want to run at 16:00.)

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