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Cron Cheat Sheet — Crontab Syntax & Schedule Examples

Cron expressions have five fields. This reference explains each one, the special characters, and gives schedules you can copy directly.

Put it into practice with the matching tool.

Field order

minute0–59

hour0–23

day of month1–31

month1–12

day of week0–6 (0 = Sunday)

* * * * *All five fields in order — runs every minute

*Every value for that field

*/5Step — every 5 units

1,15List — at 1 and 15

9-17Range — from 9 through 17

0-30/10Range with a step — 0, 10, 20, 30

*/15 * * * *Every 15 minutes

0 * * * *Every hour, on the hour

0 0 * * *Every day at midnight

0 8 * * 1-5Every weekday at 8:00 am

0 3 * * 0Every Sunday at 3:00 am

0 0 1 * *First day of every month at midnight

30 2 1 1 *Once a year — 1 January at 2:30 am

@hourlySame as 0 * * * *

@dailySame as 0 0 * * *

@weeklySame as 0 0 * * 0

@monthlySame as 0 0 1 * *

@yearlySame as 0 0 1 1 *

@rebootRun once at startup

crontab -eEdit your crontab

crontab -lList your crontab

crontab -rRemove your crontab (careful)