Bellow is my cron command.I want to add the sleep command there.
This is what i tried so far.is that CORRECT ?
* * * * * root sleep 5 && /home/samitha/bash.sh >> /home/samitha/log/cron.log 2>&1
That is absolutely correct. You can also use ;
instead of &&
, but in this case it doesn't matter because sleep
returns 0 always.
Update
This format here is for /etc/crontab
.
If you use users' crontabs (edit them using crontab -e, as on the screenshot), you must omit username from the line:
* * * * * sleep 5 && /home/samitha/bash.sh >> /home/samitha/log/cron.log 2>&1