Cron jobs and random times, within given hours

Question

I need the ability to run a PHP script 20 times a day at completely random times. I also want it to run only between 9am - 11pm.

I\'m familiar with creating cron job

Answer 1

You can try with this example to use random times before execute command:

#!/bin/bash
# start time
date +"%H:%M:%S"

# sleep for 5 seconds
sleep $(shuf -i 1-25 -n 1)
# end time
date +"%H:%M:%S"