Originally Posted by signupdamnit

And to make it more clear if you were just wanting a different script for each hour of the day I guess you could do something like:

0 1 * * * /home/user/jim/test.pl >/dev/null 2>&1
0 2 * * * /home/user/jim/test2.pl >/dev/null 2>&1
0 3 * * * /home/user/jim/test3.pl >/dev/null 2>&1

...

0 23 * * * /home/user/jim/test23.pl >/dev/null 2>&1

The ">/dev/null 2>&1" at the end says to discard the output so that it doesn't email it to you for each hour.

Hope this helps.