Re: cron: nth <weekday> of month?
hi ya
you can run the script 7 times ( 7 entries in crontab )....
and if its not sunday, the script can exit.....
at least no wrapper is needed...
and there's probably "gazaillion" other ways to skin this cat
c ya
alvin
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Bud Rogers wrote:
> "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes:
> > I've got a job I'd like to run once a month, on a set day of the week,
> > say, the first Sunday of the month. Suggestions as to how to do this
> > with cron?
>
> Could you wrap the job in a shell scrip? Run the script from cron every
> Sunday. Have the script check if the date is within the first seven days of
> the month. If so run the job, else exit quietly. Not very elegant, but it
> would get the job done.
>
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> All things in moderation. And not too much moderation either.
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