Re: cron: nth <weekday> of month?
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:32:46PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> To run on the fifth Sunday in a month, only if it exists:
>
> 0 1 29 1,3-12 * echo 'command -args' | at 1:34 sunday
>
> To run on the fifth Sunday in a month, *or* the following
> Sunday if it does not:
>
> 0 1 29 * * echo 'command -args' | at 1:34 sunday
>
> The special case of running on the fifth Sunday of February in a leap
> year, but only if it exists...I don't have a solution at the moment.
>
>
> Another missing specification: does anyone have a good "last weekday of
> month" recipie?
looks like CRON needs a tweak or two, hmm?
what if we propose something like
#min hr monthday month weekday cmd
0 1 1 1 * echo Jan 1 1:00am
#and for the new concepts, which could use tweaking:
0 1 -1 * * echo last-of-every-month, 1:00am
0 1 * * mon-fri echo mon,tue,wed,thu,fri at 1:00am
0 1 * * wed1 echo first wednesday each month, 1am
0 4 * * sun-1 echo last wednesday each month, 4am
hmm?
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