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Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 21:47:29 -0700
From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc: George Yobst <george@lincc.lib.or.us>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Cron question
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On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 01:39:39PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote:
> George Yobst writes:
> > Hi all,
> > How do I get cron to start a job on the first Sunday of the month?
> > Thanks  -George
> 
> By starting a wrapper every Sunday. The wrapper checks that the day of
> month and launches your job if it's less than 8:
> 
> 	if [ `date +%d` -lt 8 ]; then
> 		realjob
> 	fi
> 
> That's small enough to imbed in a cron file if you really wanted to.

Or if you want to be 3l33t, you can cut that to,

  [ `date +%d` -lt 8 ] && realjob

-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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