Re: Crontab last days of the month..

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 01:35:13PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> if [ $(date -d tomorrow '+%m') -ne $(date '+%m') ]
> then
> 	echo 'today is the last day of the month'
> fi

[ $(date -d tomorrow '+%d') -eq 1 ] && echo 'last of the month'

This can also be done directly in your crontab:

[ $(date -d tomorrow '+%d') -eq 1 ] && /path/to/executable

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