Re: cron: nth <weekday> of month?

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:32:43PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> Hence, my crontab recipie to execute a job on the first sunday of the
> month is:
> 
>   1 1 1 * * echo 'command -args' | at 1:35 sunday
<snip>
> For tasks scheduled for other weeks of the month, you'd select:
> 
>   Week	Day
>   ----	---
<snip>
>      5  29

Note also that for any month that is not a non-leap February, this 5th-week
rule will happily schedule the command for the first week of the following
month if there isn't a fifth occurrence of the desired weekday that month.

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