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Ubuntu 16.04.2 Per 5 Second Cron Job

Posted on June 15, 2017

Please help how to create Ubuntu 16.04.2 Cron Job. My cron job required to run in very 5 second. Normally on linux I used sleep for this.



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Ubuntu is Linux, you can use sleep. Crontab is once a minute at it’s fastest.

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