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Date:      Tue, 15 Apr 1997 23:14:17 -0400
From:      Shawn Carey <smc@servtech.com>
To:        Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>
Cc:        "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: crontab question
Message-ID:  <33544409.41C67EA6@servtech.com>
References:  <Pine.LNX.3.95.970415175333.9632B-100000@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us>

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Alex Belits wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Shawn Carey wrote:
> 
> > [...]
> > It seems to me that what I need is for cron to logically AND the
> > day-of-week and day-of-month fields instead of using logical OR.  Is
> > there any low down, dirty way to simulate this (short of hacking cron)?
> 
> 0 14 1-7 *  *     root  date | grep Sun >/dev/null && mail -s "cron test" root
> 
> and last Sunday:
> 
> 0 14 22-31 * * root [ `date|cut -f3 -d' '` = `cal|cut -f1 -d' '|grep -v ^\$|tail -1` ] && mail -s "cron test" root
> 

Wow.  That's exactly what I meant to say, thanks for the precise
translation from english to sh(1)!

> --
> Alex

-Shawn



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