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On 09/19/14 09:47, Stephan Müller wrote: |
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>Am 18.09.2014 um 18:44 schrieb Joseph: |
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>> I want to run a cron job only once a month. The problem is the computer is only on on weekdays Mon-Fri. 1-5 |
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>> cron tab as this below is an "or" condition as it has entries in Days of the Months and Day of the Week |
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>> 5 18 1 * 2 rsync -av ... |
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>> so it will run on days 1 or Tuesday of each months. |
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>> Is it possible to create "and" condition, eg. run it on Tuesday between days 1 to 7; depend on which day Tuesday falls on? |
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>You can run it every Tuesday and check for day of month externally: |
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>5 18 * * 2 test $(date +%d) -le 7 && rsync -av ... |
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>or run it on |
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>5 18 1-7 * * and test for Tuesdays, but the former gives less useless invocations. |
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> ~frukto |
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Thanks, very cleaver, I knew there must be a solution. |
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Joseph |
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