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mike-cardwell on Aug 1, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Cron commands to plain English

Does not understand this syntax: "1-56/5 * * * * foo"

pbyrne on Aug 2, 2014 | [–]

Sorry about that. It's a [known issue](https://github.com/pbyrne/cron-checker/issues/7).

ajmurmann on Aug 1, 2014 | [–]

What does that do?

CronWTF doesn't understand it either and that one even has a cat!

riquito on Aug 1, 2014 | | [–]

> 1-56/5 * * * * foo

The first minute of the hour, then every 5 minutes until the 56th minute, inclusive

hueving on Aug 1, 2014 | | [–]

Every 5 starting at 1 instead of 0

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