[ale] crontab

[pete.hardie at gmail.com (Pete Hardie)]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 13:33, Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> I want to execute a script at 6pm on the first Thursday of each month.
> Is there a trick in crontab I can do?
>
> Here are the fields allowed
>
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ?field ? ? ? ? ?allowed values
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ?----- ? ? ? ? ?--------------
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ?minute ? ? ? ? 0-59
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ?hour ? ? ? ? ? 0-23
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ?day of month ? 1-31
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ?month ? ? ? ? ?1-12 (or names, see below)
> ? ? ? ? ? ? ?day of week ? ?0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names)
>
> The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is to run it every
> Thursday and then check to see if we are the first Thursday of the
> month. If not, exit 0.

That looks like the only option - the only mention I found in GNU crontab was
that day-of-month and day-of-week will BOTH be run if specified



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