Help with cronjob scheduling

[sudhirav]

Hi Everybody,

How to schedule a job using cron that shouldn't run between working hrs 9am-5pm, while run in non working hrs every hour, every day of the month, month & week.

I tried the following way, not sure I can use logical not operator(!). Please correct me if wrong or suggest other ways which might be better.

crontab -e
0 !9-17 * * * /path/to/script/file

I guess other way is
0 17-8 * * * /path/to/script/file

Thank you in advance

[sanjeevt]

Hi

you can use the otherway, modify it to

0 17-23,0-8 * * * /path/to/script/file