setup cron tab to specific time of during weekdays

Question

I am trying to setup a cron job on a Ubuntu server. We want the cron job to run the script at certain times of the day and on some specific days of the week. For example, we

Answer 1

You state 2pm in your requirement, hour range should end at 14 instead of 18 (which is 6pm).

*/2 9-14 * * 1-5 /path_to_script

man crontab

http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?crontab+5

Answer 2

In fact the last hour you want the script to run is 13:00 to 13:59, so you want:

*/2 9-13 * * 1-5 /path_to_script

meaning the first runtime will be 9:00, then 9:02, and so on until 13:58 which will be the last run as 14:00 is not included.

Answer 3

Same as you did for hours:

*/2 09-18 * * 1-5 /path_to_script

0 and 7 stand for Sunday
6 stands for Saturday
so, 1-5 means from Monday to Friday