This page will help you quickly and easily set up a cron job to run every 10 days at 10:30 pm.
The Cron Job/Crontab
To have your task run at this frequency, use the following cron:
30 22 */10 * *
This cron command translates to the following (in Human-Readable format):
“Every 10 days at 10:30 pm.”
What is a Cron Job & Crontab?
A cron job is a time-based task that is typically set up to run automatically at regular intervals. For example, a cron job might be used to send out a daily email report or to back up files every night.
A crontab is a file containing commands and instructions for the cron daemon to execute.
Cron Fields
Every cron job uses five fields. Here is an explanation of what each field does in this cron, which runs “every 10 days at 10:30 pm“:
FUN FACT: The most common way to edit cron jobs is using the crontab command – this stands for “cron table,” and it contains all the information about when your tasks should be executed..
Use Cases
You might want to set up a crontab or cron job to run every 10 days at 10:30 pm for several reasons, including:
- Automatically send a report to the boss every 10 days
- Perform maintenance tasks on a database every 10 days
- Delete old log files every 10 days
- Update live data from a remote server every 10 days
Similar Cron Jobs
You might also want to run a crontab:
- every 8 days
- every 3 days
- every 6 days
- every 10 days
- every 2 days
- every 5 days
- every 9 days at 12:00 am
- every 9 days at 9:30 am
FUN FACT: You can use cron to schedule just about anything!.
Wrapping Up
In this article, you learned how to set up a cron job that runs every 10 days at 10:30 pm. Please share this page with friends and colleagues if you find it useful.
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If you are looking for cron jobs that run at certain minutes, hours, days, weekdays, or months, or if you are looking for miscellaneous cron jobs, then check out our relevant sections, or visit our cron job cheat sheet for a list of hundreds of popular cron jobs.