on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:23:51AM -0400, Rob Mahurin (robm@mad.scientist.com) wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:58:28AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > 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? > > > > My understanding is that I can specify day of month, or weekday, but if > > both are specified the condition is treated as an OR (if first week of > > month OR Sunday, then do...). > > > > E.g.: > > > > 48 2 1 * 7 do-stuff > > > > ...would run on the first of the month, and each Sunday. > > Yup, that's how I read it, too. > > > I could set a job to run either each Sunday, or each of the first seven > > days of the month, and test the appropriate other condition. > > This is the solution which seems the prettiest to me; something like > > 0 0 1-7 * * [ "$(date +%a)" == "Sun" ] && command -args Nice. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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