> This question was asked and was answered by Crist J. Clark
> some years gone.
> Google could not help me so I beg to ask here:
>
> I would like to run a script via crontab every
>
> 1. 3rd day and 28th day of each month (seems easy)
> 2. Every first Thursday of the month
One solution would be
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:49:57PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> This question was asked and was answered by Crist J. Clark some years gone.
> Google could not help me so I beg to ask here:
crontab(5) should be all you need.
> I would like to run a script via crontab every
>
> 1. 3rd day
Here are untested examples that I think should work. They run the job
at 3:00 am (the first two fields).
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:49:57PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> 1. 3rd day and 28th day of each month (seems easy)
0 3 3,28 * * mycommand
> 2. Every first Thursday of the month
Matthew Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> 2. Every first Thursday of the month
>
> 0 3 1-7 * * [ `date +%a` = Thu ] && mycommand
My understanding is that putting more than one condition in it
performs a logical conjunction. So wouldn't it work to do like this?
# minute hour dom month do
On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:56:20PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
> My understanding is that putting more than one condition in it
> performs a logical conjunction. So wouldn't it work to do like this?
>
> # minute hour dom month dow command
> 031-7 * 4 mycommand
I thought that
Matthew Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:56:20PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote:
>
>> My understanding is that putting more than one condition in it
>> performs a logical conjunction. So wouldn't it work to do like this?
>>
>> # minute hour dom month dow command
>> 0
* Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030930 21:08]: wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:49:57PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > This question was asked and was answered by Crist J. Clark some years gone.
> > Google could not help me so I beg to ask here:
>
> crontab(5) should be all you n
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:53:47PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> * Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030930 21:08]: wrote:
> > 23 11 * * Thu [ $(date +%d) -lt 8 ] && your_script
> How does that differ with the following?
>
> 23 11 * * 4 if [ `date +\%d` -le 7 ]; then /path/to/m
