cron schedules
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Sample cron schedules
- At 00:05 on every day-of-month from 6 through 20 and on every day-of-week from Monday through Friday.
Five minutes after the start of every hour.
5 0 06-20 * * MON-FRI - At every minute.
*/1 * * * *
Spring cron vs normal cron?
References:
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30887822/spring-cron-vs-normal-cron
- https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/reference/integration/scheduling.html
Spring Scheduled tasks are not in the same format as cron expressions.
They don’t follow the same format as UNIX cron expressions.
There are only 6 fields:
- second,
- minute,
- hour,
- day of month,
- month,
- day(s) of week.
Asterisk (*) means match any. */X means “every X” (see examples).
Numeric days of the week do not work for me. Besides, “MON-FRI” is much easier to read. Here are some example expressions:
"0 0 18 * * MON-FRI" means every weekday at 6:00 PM.
"0 0 */1 * * *" means every hour on the hour.
"0 0 */8 * * *" means every 8 hours on the hour.
"0 0 12 1 * *" means 12:00 PM on the first day of every month.
A Spring Scheduled tasks is like this:
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- - - - - -
* * * * * * command to be executed
- - - - - -
| | | | | |
| | | | | ------- Day of week (MON - SUN)
| | | | --------- Month (1 - 12)
| | | ----------- Day of month (1 - 31)
| |-------------- Hour (0 - 23)
| --------------- Minute (0 - 59)
----------------- Seconds (0 - 59)
A Linux Cron job is like this:
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- - - - -
* * * * * command to be executed
- - - - -
| | | | |
| | | | ----- Day of week (0 - 7) (Sunday=0 or 7)
| | | ------- Month (1 - 12)
| | --------- Day of month (1 - 31)
| ----------- Hour (0 - 23)
------------- Minute (0 - 59)