[ale] crontab

[Adam]

Bah, you're all doing it the hard way.

Run an 'at' job that sets up another at job at the end of execution.

:P

Adam


Chris Fowler wrote:
> I want to execute a script at 6pm on the first Thursday of each month.
> Is there a trick in crontab I can do?
> 
> Here are the fields allowed
> 
>               field          allowed values
>               -----          --------------
>               minute         0-59
>               hour           0-23
>               day of month   1-31
>               month          1-12 (or names, see below)
>               day of week    0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names)
> 
> The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is to run it every
> Thursday and then check to see if we are the first Thursday of the
> month. If not, exit 0.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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