Put back the ? syntax accidentally removed when syncing with the OpenBSD
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.\" $NetBSD: crontab.5,v 1.7 2018/06/15 23:15:56 wiz Exp $
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.\" $NetBSD: crontab.5,v 1.8 2020/04/17 18:39:31 christos Exp $
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.\"
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.\"/* Copyright 1988,1990,1993,1994 by Paul Vixie
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.\" * All rights reserved
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.\"
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.\" $OpenBSD: crontab.5,v 1.36 2018/06/13 13:27:37 jmc Exp $
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.\"
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.Dd June 14, 2018
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.Dd April 17, 2020
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.Dt CRONTAB 5
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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Ranges of numbers are allowed.
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Ranges are two numbers separated with a hyphen.
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The specified range is inclusive.
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.Pp
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A field may begin with a question mark
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.Pq Sq \&? ,
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which indicates a single value randomly selected when the crontab
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file is read.
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If the field contains only a question mark, the value is randomly
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selected from the range of all possible values for the field.
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If the question mark precedes a range, the value is randomly selected
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from the range.
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For example,
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.Dq ? ?2-5 * * *
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specifies that a task will be performed daily between 2:00am and
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and 5:59am at a time randomly selected when the crontab file is
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first read.
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As just one example, this feature can be used to prevent a large
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number of hosts from contacting a server simultaneously and
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overloading it by staggering the time at which a download script
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is executed.
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For example,
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8\(en11 for an
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.Ar hour
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entry specifies execution at hours 8, 9, 10 and 11.
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.Pp
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Step values can be used in conjunction with ranges.
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Step values can be used in conjunction with ranges (but not random ranges
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which represent a single number).
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Following a range with
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.No / Ns Ar number
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specifies skips of
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