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From: rls@svcs1.UUCP (Bob Strait)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Cron - First Saturday of the month
Message-ID: <562@svcs1.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 90 17:13:32 GMT
References: <19744@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Organization: Silicon Valley Computer Society, Sunnyvale, CA
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In article <19744@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> curt@oce.orst.edu (Curt Vandetta) writes:
>  I'm wondering if anyone has a way of making cron run a job on the
>  first Saturday of every month?  
>

How about running your job each of the first seven days of every
month, and have the job first test whether it's Saturday and
exit if it's not.  There are several easy ways to do the test:
'date | grep Sat' comes to mind.
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