Command Reference Guide
• Ranges of numbers are allowed. Ranges are two numbers separated with a hyphen. The
specified range is inclusive. For example, 8-11 for an hour entry specifies execution at hours
8, 9, 10 and 11. Ranges must be specified from low to high.
• One of six special strings may also appear instead of the specification above:
MeaningString
Run every January 1st, "0 0 1 1 *"@yearly
Run the first day of every month, "0 0 1 * *"@monthly
Run every Sunday, "0 0 * * 0"@weekly
Run every midnight, "0 0 * * *"@daily
Run every hour, on the hour, "0 * * * *"@hourly
• If some form of daylight savings or summer/winter time is in effect, then jobs scheduled during
the switchover period could be executed once, twice, or not at all.
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