Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 12:06:54 -0500 From: "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net> To: "'Odhiambo Washington'" <wash@wananchi.com>, "'Free BSD Questions list'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: complex crontab query Message-ID: <001c01c38775$3fe93f80$04fea8c0@moe> In-Reply-To: <20030930164957.GL59342@ns2.wananchi.com>
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> This question was asked and was answered by Crist J. Clark > some years gone. > Google could not help me so I beg to ask here: > > I would like to run a script via crontab every > > 1. 3rd day and 28th day of each month (seems easy) > 2. Every first Thursday of the month One solution would be to program the logic into your script, then run the script every day from crontab. Example bash pseudo-code: If day-of-month = 3 or 28 ; then do some stuff Elif day-of-month <= 7 and day-of-week = Thursday ; then do the same stuff fi
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