What are the 5 fields of a standard Unix crontab expression?

The 5 fields in order are: Minute (0-59), Hour (0-23), Day of Month (1-31), Month (1-12), and Day of Week (0-7, where 0 and 7 are Sunday).

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Cron Expression (5 Standard Fields)

minute hour day(month) month day(week)

Plain English Translation:

Runs daily at midnight (00:00).

Next Estimated Scheduled Runs (UTC):

The standard Unix crontab format consists of five whitespace-separated fields:

Asterisk (*): Represents "all values" (e.g. every minute or every day).
Comma (,): Specifies a list of explicit values (e.g. 1,15,30).
Hyphen (-): Defines an inclusive range (e.g. 1-5 for Monday to Friday).
Slash (/): Defines increments / step values (e.g. */10 for every 10 minutes).