Re: A Rather Basic Cron Question

[Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com>]

	Hi.

On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 01:29:30PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> */5 5-12,13-23 * * * sh -c ". $HOME/.master.env; ./etc/do_mail"
...
> 	In this case, no harm was done but shouldn't the cron
> runs have stopped at 12:00 and then resumed at 13:00?

No, it should not. It's a classic 'off by one' mistake:

$ perl -e 'my @a = (eval "5..12,13..23"); print join ",", @a;'

5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23

On the other hand, 

$ perl -e 'my @a = (eval "5..11,13..23"); print join ",", @a;'

5,6,7,8,9,10,11,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23

So 5-11,13-23 should do what you want.

Reco