How can I execute a cron job five seconds after the full minute?

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Basically I am trying to execute the script '/path/to/my/script/script.sh -value 2' as 'testuser' at every minute's 5th second. (5 seconds is the delay required for "some reason" which could have been part of the script itself, but I just want to put it on Cron).

Is this the right way to do this?

* * * * * testuser sleep 5 && /path/to/my/script/script.sh -value 2

May be a dupe of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3331577/cron-jobs-to-run-every-5-seconds — , Sep 28 '10 at 15:30

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 28 '10 at 15:51

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Yes. Yes it will.

answered Sep 28 '10 at 15:51

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How can I execute a cron job five seconds after the full minute?

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