Crontab except specific hours - linux

I would like to run Crontab every 30 minutes except from 12 AM - 6 AM EST
The following is to set it every 30 minutes but i don't know how to except the mentioned hours.
*/30 * * * *
Thanks in advance.

I believe you want this rule:
0 0,30 6/1 ? * * *
This runs at 0 minutes and 30 minutes past the hour, and every hour after the 6th hour.
This assumes that your system timezone is in an ET timezone like America/New_York

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AWS Cron job for Lambda

I have written a Lambda to fetch some prices on Nifty Index(share market) which runs every 5 mins and uploads data to S3.
For this i have written a cron using AWS EventBridge schedule given below
15/5 9-15 ? * MON-FRI *
now the problem is this runs from 9-15 AM to 4 PM but i want to run only till 3 - 30 PM daily.
So its running 30 mins extra which is consuming more space on s3 also
Any suggestions? Couldnt find elsewhere
Tried
15/5 9-15 ? * MON-FRI *
Current 9-15 AM to 4 PM
Expectation
9-15AM to 3-30 PM
This 15/5 9-15 ? * MON-FRI * expression will run
At every 5th minute from 15 through 59 past every hour from 9 through 15 on every day-of-week from Monday through Friday.
In your case between each hours 00 and 15 minutes (1X.00-1X.15) this cron will not execute.
So that you need more than one expression to meet your requirements.
30/5 9 ? * MON-FRI * -> From 9.30-9.55
*/5 10-14 ? * MON-FRI * -> From 10.00-14.55
0-30/5 15 ? * MON-FRI * -> From 15.00-15.30

Cronjob to run after every 30 minutes from a specific time

If my cron job runs first at suppose 9:15. Then how do I make it run after every 30 minutes from then at 9:45 then 10:15 and so on?
How about:
15,45 9-23 * * *
This should give you “At minute 15 and 45 past every hour from 9 through 23.” (according to: https://crontab.guru/#15,45_9-23_*_*_*)

Cron job every 5 minutes before 30 minutes

I am trying to create a cron job that fires every 5 minutes before 30, for example:
10:25,
10:55,
11:25,
11:55 etc. I tried */25,55 * * * * but this also sends messages at 10:50 and I'm not sure why, what would be the correct way to do this?
You're looking for the following, which is simply "at minute 25 and minute 55":
25,55 * * * *
In your original attempt, the expression */25 means "every 25th minute". As such, it would execute at 25 minutes after the hour, and then 25 minutes later.. or 50 minutes after the hour.

Cron Expression for every 30 minutes in quarter hour periods?

I am currently trying to generate a cron expression that runs every 30 minutes throughout the day but at hours like 10:15, 10:45, 11:15 and so on. I know that the cron expression 0 0/30 * 1/1 * ? * runs every 30 minutes but it does it at 10:00, 10:30, 11:00, 11:30 and so on. I wanted to know if there is a way to create a cron expression that would run at hours like 9:15, 9:45, 10:15, 10:45 and so on, like in quarter hour periods?
Running every 30 minutes starting with 15 minutes after the hour is just running twice an hour - at :15 and at :45. So instead of over-complicating, just have list those two options with a comma:
0 15,45 * 1/1 * ? *
Instead of:
0 0/30 * 1/1 * ? *
Use:
0 15,45 * 1/1 * ? *
This will run 15 and 45 minutes after every hour, resulting in the desired times 9:15, 9:45, 10:15, 10:45, etc.

Crontab syntax for non-aligned hourly range?

If I want to schedule a job to occur every five minutes between 9 until 11 pm I can use the following cron trigger:
0/5 21-22 * * *
(or something like 5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 21-22 * * * for finer control over the minutes if needed).
Is there a way to specify "every five minutes from 9:30 until 11:30"? The trickiness revolves around having e.g. 5 in the minutes field yet skipping it if the hour is 21, and I'm not immediately aware of any way to achieve that.
A simple, workaround would be to add more scheduled jobs in cron...
i.e.
30,35,40,45,50,55 21 * * * /job_to_run
*/5 22 /job_to_run
5,10,15,20,25,30 23 * * * /job_to_run
p.s. Cron usually has the following order:
Minutes Hour DayOfMonth Month DayOfWeek Command

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