How to run a cron job on every Monday Wednesday and Friday

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How can one run a cron job for every Monday  Wednesday and Friday at 7 00 pm

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This is how I configure it on my server   0  19        1 3 5 root bash  home divo data support files support files inc backup sh   The above command will run my script at 19 00 on Monday  Wednesday  and Friday   NB  For cron entries for day of the week  dow   0   Sunday 1   Monday 2   Tuesday 3   Wednesday 4   Thursday 5   Friday 6   Saturday

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Use crontab to add job  0 0 9     MON WED FRI     The above expression will run the job at 9 am on every mon  wed and friday  You can validate this in   http   www cronmaker com

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The rule would be   0 19     1 3 5   I suggest that you use http   corntab com for having a very convenient GUI to create your rules in the future

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Use crontab to add job    crontab -e   And job should be in this format     00 19     1 3 5  home user somejob sh

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Here s my example crontab I always use as a template         Use the hash sign to prefix a comment        ---------------- minute  0 - 59            ------------- hour  0 - 23               ---------- day of month  1 - 31                  ------- month  1 - 12                     ---- day of week  0 - 7   Sunday 0 or 7                                           command to be executed      --------------------------------------------------------------------------   To run my cron job every Monday  Wednesady and Friday at 7 00PM  the result will be         0 19     1 3 5 nohup  home lathonez script sh  gt   tmp script log 2 gt  amp 1   source

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Use this command to add job  crontab -e   In this format   0 19     1 3 5  path to your file file php

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Have you tried the following expression      0 19     1 3 5

[cron] How to run a cron job on every Monday, Wednesday and Friday?

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