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From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Cron - First Saturday of the month
Message-ID: <BZS.90Sep6160918@world.std.com>
Date: 6 Sep 90 20:09:18 GMT
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Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
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In-Reply-To: merlyn@iwarp.intel.com's message of 6 Sep 90 17:09:07 GMT


Just run a little wrapper (a shell script would do) every night that
has your own rules for whether or not the real program should run
today. Here's a start (very generic, SYSV date can simplify this of
course):

	#!/bin/sh
	DOW=`date|awk '{ print $1 }`
	DOM=`date|awk '{ print $3 }`

	if [ "$DOW" = "Sat" -a "$DOM" -le "7" ]
	then
		DOIT
	else
		exit 0
	fi

something like that anyhow, -le 7 is probably faulty, but that's not
the point, this is advice, not custom programming.
-- 
        -Barry Shein

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