Re: Createing a Crontab for the last day of the month

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 04:51:51PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> In the script that the cron job runs every 28-31 put the line:
> 
> if [ `date +%m` == `date +%m --date=tomorrow` ]; then exit; fi

Or, to put all the logic within the crontab itself (a Good Thing, since
you then only have to look in one place to find it):

1 0 28-31 * * [ "$(date +%d -d +1day)" -eq "1" ] && /path/to/script args

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