crontab -e
*/5 * * * * your-command

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, divakaran u.m wrote:

> hello,
>  can anyone tell me how to run a command every 5 minutes using crontab 
> entry..
> i would like to know what the crontab entry would look like for every 
> five minutes
> 
> regards
> divakaran     
> 

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