An illustration of the idea, this crontab configuration: $ crontab -l | grep touch */10 * * * * touch /tmp/normal-$(date +\%s) */~10 * * * * touch /tmp/mixedup-$(date +\%s)
Resulted on my local machine in the following: $ ls -lahtr /tmp/{mixedup,normal}* -rw-r--r-- 1 job wheel 0B May 3 17:46 /tmp/mixedup-1683135961 -rw-r--r-- 1 job wheel 0B May 3 17:50 /tmp/normal-1683136201 -rw-r--r-- 1 job wheel 0B May 3 17:56 /tmp/mixedup-1683136561 -rw-r--r-- 1 job wheel 0B May 3 18:00 /tmp/normal-1683136801 -rw-r--r-- 1 job wheel 0B May 3 18:06 /tmp/mixedup-1683137161 -rw-r--r-- 1 job wheel 0B May 3 18:10 /tmp/normal-1683137401 -rw-r--r-- 1 job wheel 0B May 3 18:16 /tmp/mixedup-1683137761 Kind regards, Job