Running cron job every 10 seconds

Ugly way to do it would be to create 6 lines in the crontab for each time you want the job to run, with each call passing an increment of 10 to the job (e.g:
Then, your script would use the value passed to it and use the "sleep" command. (e.g:

   

*/6 * * * * /path/to/script

That should work

nice.
wareb73's way is much cleaner.

No that should not work, that means every 6 minutes not a minute divided by 6

the only way you can do this is by enabling a time sleep under your script

Yes a far my understanding of cron u cannot run jobs every few secs without using help of sleep command inside the script

another way if it isn't a script is doing:

* * * * * /path/to/program
* * * * * /usr/bin/sleep 10 && /path/to/program
* * * * * /usr/bin/sleep 20 && /path/to/program
* * * * * /usr/bin/sleep 30 && /path/to/program
* * * * * /usr/bin/sleep 40 && /path/to/program
* * * * * /usr/bin/sleep 50 && /path/to/program

or if it's a script you do:

* * * * * /path/to/script

then you can have something like the following in the script:

I=0
while [ ${I} -le 50 ]; do
I=`/usr/bin/expr ${I} + 10`
/path/to/program
/usr/bin/sleep 10
done