* Lance Hoffmeyer (lance@augustmail.com) [030731 21:46]: > Hello, > > I am trying to run a bash script in cron. I originally wanted > it to run at 11:59pm on the last day of every month. February > will always cause problems because of leap years. Therefore, > I decided to run cron on the first day of every month using > the @month parameter. > > The problem is that I want the month to reflect the previous month. > > MON=$((`date +%m`-1)) Touch a file every day, say at 00:05. Then in your script that runs on the first of the month (say at 00:03), use date -r $FILE. You'll get yesterday's date. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." -- E.W. Dijkstra
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