Cron jobs — to run every 5 seconds

Question

I want to create cron job that runs a script every 5 seconds. Seeing that cron jobs only allows increments of minutes 0-59 and so on.

I thought to create another scr

Answer 1

To answer the question in the title, this is how to run a cronjob every 5 seconds :

* * * * * /path/to/script.sh
* * * * * sleep 5 && /path/to/script.sh
* * * * * sleep 10 && /path/to/script.sh
* * * * * sleep 15 && /path/to/script.sh
* * * * * sleep 20 && /path/to/script.sh
* * * * * sleep 25 && /path/to/script.sh
* * * * * sleep 30 && /path/to/script.sh
* * * * * sleep 35 && /path/to/script.sh
* * * * * sleep 40 && /path/to/script.sh
* * * * * sleep 45 && /path/to/script.sh
* * * * * sleep 50 && /path/to/script.sh
* * * * * sleep 55 && /path/to/script.sh

It's not beautiful, but this solution comes with no extra tools nor dependencies. So if you have working cron jobs, this should work right away.