Crontab

[Antigoni]

How to run a script the first Monday of every month through crontab

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On 2004-06-04, Antigoni wrote:

> How to run a script the first Monday of every month through crontab

This runs at midnight; adjust the first 2 parameters to have it
run at another time:

0 0 1-7 * 1 /path/to/script

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[Barry Margolin]

In article <2iagm2Fkkd58U1@uni-berlin.de>,
"Chris F.A. Johnson" <c.fa.johnson@rogers.com> wrote:

> On 2004-06-04, Antigoni wrote:

> > How to run a script the first Monday of every month through crontab

>
> This runs at midnight; adjust the first 2 parameters to have it
> run at another time:
>
> 0 0 1-7 * 1 /path/to/script

Incorrect. That runs the script every monday and *also* the first seven
days of every month.

There are two common solutions:

1) Run the script every Monday, and have the script check whether the
day of the month is in the range 1-7.

2) Run the script on days 1-7 of every month, and have it check whether
the current day is Monday.

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Barry Margolin, [email]barmar@alum.mit.edu[/email]
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