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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/