How to run crontab job every week on Sunday

Question

I\'m trying to figure out how to run a crontab job every week on Sunday. I think the following should work, but I\'m not sure if I understand correctly. Is the following cor

Answer 1

* * * * 0 

you can use above cron job to run on every week on sunday, but in addition on what time you want to run this job for that you can follow below concept :

* * * * *  Command_to_execute
- � � � -
| | | | |
| | | | +�� Day of week (0�6) (Sunday=0) or Sun, Mon, Tue,...
| | | +���- Month (1�12) or Jan, Feb,...
| | +����-� Day of month (1�31)
| +������� Hour (0�23)
+��������- Minute (0�59)

Answer 2

When specifying your cron values you'll need to make sure that your values fall within the ranges. For instance, some cron's use a 0-7 range for the day of week where both 0 and 7 represent Sunday. We do not(check below).

Seconds: 0-59
Minutes: 0-59
Hours: 0-23
Day of Month: 1-31
Months: 0-11
Day of Week: 0-6

reference: https://github.com/ncb000gt/node-cron

Answer 3

Cron job expression in a human-readable way crontab builder

Answer 4

The crontab website gives the real time results display: https://crontab.guru/#5_8_*_*_0