When I want to use cron to run a task more frequently than once per minute, my trick is to have the target program perform the task more than once per invocatio

When I want to use cron to run a task more frequently than once per minute, my trick is to have the target program perform the task more than once per invocation. E.g.: # script start, T=0s do_something() for n in range(0, 11): time.sleep(5) do_something() # script end, T=55s