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I’m looking at a crontab on a linux server and came accross the following line
*/1 * * * * /path/to/file
To me this means run the cron every 1 minute right?
What makes it different from this?
* * * * * /path/to/file
I’m fairly new to Linux crontab so hopefully this isn’t a dumb question.
‘*/1’ is a step definition and means every minute; it is identical to the second format.
If you would want to do something every 2 hours, you could do this:
See: (search for the word “Ranges”)