On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 12:32:46PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Another missing specification: does anyone have a good "last weekday of > month" recipie?
'Last weekday of the month' is equivalent to 'Monday - Thursday where tomorrow is next month or Friday where 3 days from now is next month'. So... Set up two cron entries, one for mon-thu, one for fri. (To additionally optimize, run the mon-thu job only on the 28th-31st of the month and the fri job on the 26th-31st.) Based off of Rob's solution to the original question, use test on mon-thu whether `date +%d -d +1day` == 1 and on fri whether `date +%d -d +3day` < 4. That gives us: 1 0 28-31 * 1-4 [ "$(date +%d -d +1day)" -eq "1" ] && command -args 1 0 26-31 * 5 [ "$(date +%d -d +3day)" -lt "4" ] && command -args (-lt was used instead of < because it < does an ascii comparison - "29" < "4". -eq was used instead of == to be consistent; either should work in that case.) -- That's not gibberish... It's Linux. - Byers, The Lone Gunmen Geek Code 3.1: GCS d? s+: a- C++ UL++$ P++>+++ L+++>++++ E- W--(++) N+ o+ !K w---$ O M- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t 5++ X+ R++ tv b+ DI++++ D G e* h+ r y+