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

[Rick Pasotto <rick@niof.net>]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 04:26:12PM -0400, Miller, Jim wrote:
> Hello guys,
>     Is there an easy way to run a script the last day of each month using
> cron.  IE it would handle the 30,31,29/28 issue?

In the script that the cron job runs every 28-31 put the line:

if [ `date +%m` == `date +%m --date=tomorrow` ]; then exit; fi

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