[ale] cron entry that runs the 2nd saturday of every month
Geoffrey Myers
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Mon Aug 29 10:09:34 EDT 2011
The Don Lachlan wrote:
> 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.
Sweet, just didn't consider that solution, thanks.
>
> -L
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