On 11/04/04 23:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 18:58:06 +1100
Peter Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ( wday -q || wday -q `/bin/date -d yesterday +%Y%m%d` ) && echo
Hello
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
at a tangent to the main question, did you actually check this in c
On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 18:58:06 +1100
Peter Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, I think you've got it the wrong way around. The one line
> version works for today.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ( wday -q || wday -q `/bin/date -d yesterday +%Y%m%d` ) && echo
> Hello
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
>
at a t
People don't respond to email on a public holiday? What madness is
this? Change your users...
Denis Crowdy
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 06:15:16PM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote:
> Thought I might share my new favourite utility, wday.
>
> So I've got a script that's launched by cron every Monday. It ema
Peter Hardy wrote:
Thought I might share my new favourite utility, wday.
Thanks. It's always useful to see real-world examples from
users of such tools.
...
day was a public holiday. Debian didn't seem to have anything
pre-packaged, and I was starting to despair of evil calendar(1)
What about "remi
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 18:39, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Peter Hardy wrote:
> >I know this could be condensed to one line like
> >
> >30 10* * * ( wday -q || wday -q `/bin/date -d yesterday +%Y%m%d` ) &&
> >/path/to/script
> >
> >, I just thought splitting across
This one time, at band camp, Peter Hardy wrote:
>On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 18:15, Peter Hardy wrote:
>> # Progress report annoyances.
>> # Only send on Monday if it isn't a public holiday
>> 30 10 * * 1 benno /usr/bin/wday -q || python /home/disy/progress_annoy.py
>> # Only send on Tuesday if Mon
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 18:15, Peter Hardy wrote:
> # Progress report annoyances.
> # Only send on Monday if it isn't a public holiday
> 30 10 * * 1 benno /usr/bin/wday -q || python /home/disy/progress_annoy.py
> # Only send on Tuesday if Monday was a public holiday
> 30 10 * * 2 benno /u
Thought I might share my new favourite utility, wday.
So I've got a script that's launched by cron every Monday. It emails
reminders to all users who haven't sent a progress report for the
previous week. Simple.
Amongst other changes to be done, I was asked if this system could be
modified so, if
