Validate cron

Validate a five-field Vixie cron expression before installing it in a crontab.

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ToolCron Validator
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How it works

The expression is split into minute, hour, day-of-month, month, and weekday fields. Each field accepts numeric values, lists, ranges, steps, or an asterisk within the Vixie ranges; a sixth year field is rejected so another cron dialect is not silently mixed in.

  • The five-field contract matches traditional Unix crontab.

Worked example

Valid Cron Expression
Validate a correctly formed cron expression
Input
											0 9 * * 1-5
Output
												Cron: 0 9 * * 1-5
Valid: Yes

When to use this

Crontab deployment checks, CI schedules, and backup runbooks validate expressions.

Edge cases

  • A six-field expression is rejected.
  • Hour 25 is outside the allowed range.
  • A descending range such as 5-2 is rejected.

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