In Linux cron jobs, the asterisk (*) is a character that is used to specify "any" value for a particular field.
In a cron job, there are five fields that specify the job schedule: minute, hour, day of the month, month, and day of the week. The asterisk can be used in any of these fields to indicate that the job should run every minute, hour, daily, every weekday, day of month, or day of week.
For example, the cron job entry * command means to run the command every minute of every hour, every day of the month, every month, and every day of the week.
The asterisk can also be used with a step value to run a job at specific intervals. For example, */5 * * * * command means to run the command every five minutes.
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