[TriLUG] bash script execution time

[Shane O'Donnell]

crontab allows for both ranges and intervals:

*/15 2-23 * * * command

should get you close, but it doesn't address the :30 requirement. 

HTH,

Shane O.

On 7/8/05, Howard Boyd II <boyd at qualexphoto.com> wrote:
> Now that I have a working script (thanks again for all the help!). I
> have a question about scheduling it to run. I want the script to execute
> every 15 minutes throughout the day except between the hours of 23:30
> and 02:30. My thinking is to schedule the script to run every 15 minutes
> via cron and then build some logic into the script that says if it is
> between the hours of 23:30 and 02:30, don't execute the heart of the
> script.
> 
> Can someone provide the logic/conditional statement for a bash script
> to check the time to see if it is between 23:30 and 02:30?
> 
> Is there some way of using cron alone to accomplish what I'm attempting
> to do?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Howard
> 
> 
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