[ale] cron entry that runs the 2nd saturday of every month

The Don Lachlan ale-at-ale.org at unpopularminds.org
Sat Aug 27 16:26:50 EDT 2011


On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 02:25:40PM -0400, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
> Is it possible?

0 0 8-14 * 6  /usr/bin/foo

That says, "Run foo on days of the month between 8th and 14th (inclusive)
that are Saturdays."

There will be only one Saturday every month in that window and it will
always be the second one of the month.

I think others in the thread explained this but didn't give specific syntax
and so others continued on script folly.

-L


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