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items[0]="altair"
items[1]="betelgeuse"
items[2]="canopus"
for item in "${items[@]}" ; do
echo "[ ${item} ]"
done
sleep RANDOM
To scale that number to the range of seconds you want to delay starting your cron job, do some modulo arithmetic. For example, to wait for a random time between 0 and 600 seconds (= 10 minutes) before running your job, do:
sleep $(( RANDOM % 600 )); /path/to/executablehttps://www.endpoint.com/blog/2020/06/randomly-spacing-cron-jobs/