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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Cron - First Saturday of the month
Message-ID: <26C2F2F4.20D3@tct.uucp>
Date: 10 Aug 90 17:46:26 GMT
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According to dmcanzi@watserv1.waterloo.edu (David Canzi):
>if [ `date | sed 's/^... ...  *\([^ ]*\) .*/\1/'` -le 7 ]

At least on SysV, this is working too hard!  Use this instead:

	if [ "`date +%d`" -le 7 ]

Manual pages are wonderful things...
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Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!ateng!tct!chip>