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I have a cron job that is scheduled to run everyday, other than changing the schedule, is there any other way to do a test run of the command right now to see if it works as intended?

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I don't understand your question? Why not simply run the command? – favadi Jul 10 '12 at 10:45
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I know the command works when enter it in shell (my shell), but I want to know if it works when cron runs it, it could be affected by ENV or shell specific stuff (~ expansion) or ownership and permission stuff or ... – Ali Jul 10 '12 at 10:48
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So why not create new cron job run every minute with same command? – favadi Jul 10 '12 at 11:12
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This is exactly what I ended up doing, but I wondered if there is a way to tell cron you want a test run on job no 7 ! Surely others have had this problem/request/wish before! – Ali Jul 10 '12 at 13:55

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As far as i know there is no way to directly do that as cron has a special purpose - running schedules commands at a specific time. So the best thing is to either to manually create a crontab entry or write a script which removes and resets the environment.

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