How to edit my CRONTAB to schedule the running of /fun/fun.sh to run every other day at 2 pm?

Question

In my linux system I want to start a cronjob but don't want to enter the enter the cronjob using 'crontab -e' rather want to enter without using 'crontab -e' may be via a script.

Any suggestion on how to achieve this?

Answer 1

Use crontab -e command and append a line to the schedule

First that comes to mind is this:

00 14 * * 1,3,5 /fun/fun.sh

Suppose you have asked for as this form of schedule will run on Mon/Wed/Fri and then skip two days.

A more proper form will be this one:

00 14 1,3,5,7,9,...,31 * * /fun/fun.sh