Re: [ProgSoc] Crontab syntax question

[Pramod Korathota <bug@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 kelmans@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au wrote:

> Cron doesn't seem to be able to do and so you could try the following hack
> 
> 0 8 1-7 * * if  [ `date +%u` -eq 5 ]; then echo first friday;fi
> 
> should work (in theory :-)

Also seems to work in practice. :)

That's about the neatest way of doing it too. Thanks for
all the replies, you guys saved me a lot of trouble..

Pramod,



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Pramod Korathota <bug@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>

"Engineers never lie; we just approximate the truth."


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