crontab question

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On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Michael Weber <mweber at alliednational.com> wrote:
> Greetings!
>
>  I have a need to run a cron script periodically on two different machines.  One should run the script on even hours and the other on odd hours.
>
>  Is there a way to script the odd hour execution elegantly?
>
>  05 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23 * * * root /usr/local/sbin/sync-help-files.sh
>
>  is nowhere near as nice or intuitive as the even hour version
>
>  05 */2 * * * root /usr/local/sbin/sync-help-files.sh

1-23/2 ?

John