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Date:      Tue, 30 Sep 2003 11:10:29 -0700
From:      Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
To:        Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>, Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: complex crontab query
Message-ID:  <20030930181029.GA2738@wopr.caltech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030930164957.GL59342@ns2.wananchi.com>
References:  <20030930164957.GL59342@ns2.wananchi.com>

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Here are untested examples that I think should work.  They run the job
at 3:00 am (the first two fields).

On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 07:49:57PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:

> 1. 3rd day and 28th day of each month (seems easy)

0  3  3,28  *  *  mycommand

> 2. Every first Thursday of the month

0  3  1-7   *  *  [ `date +%a` = Thu ] && mycommand

-- 
Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Science rules.
http://www.pobox.com/~mph/           *



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