Crontab Syntax and Operators

In your cPanel, you may notice that the existing cron jobs look like this:

 * * * * * command(s) 
* (asterisk operator) This means any value or always. If you selected an asterisk in the Hour field, then it means the task will be performed each hour.
, (comma operator) This allows you to specify a list of values for repetition.
– (hyphen operator) This allows you to specify a range of values.
/ (slash operator) This allows you to specify values that will be repeated over a certain interval between them

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