Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 16:39:29 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@cryptosphere.com> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com>, Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: complex crontab query Message-ID: <20031007153929.GE80886@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20031007145347.GB49707@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <20030930164957.GL59342@ns2.wananchi.com> <20030930180743.GA54438@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20031007145347.GB49707@ns2.wananchi.com>
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On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:53:47PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> * Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> [20030930 21:08]: wrot=
e:
> > 23 11 * * Thu [ $(date +%d) -lt 8 ] && your_script
> How does that differ with the following?
>=20
> 23 11 * * 4 if [ `date +\%d` -le 7 ]; then /path/to/my/command; fi
TIMTOWTDI.
Both lines should have the same effect overall, although I neglected
to escape the % sign in what I wrote, which is not a good move in a
crontab file.
Cheers,
Matthew
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