crontab entry to run every last day of the month


 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting crontab entry to run every last day of the month
# 1  
Old 06-08-2005
crontab entry to run every last day of the month

i've created a script which should run every last day of the month. what would be the exact crontab entry for this? thanks!
# 2  
Old 06-09-2005
Tools

Have cron run a script on days 28, 29, 30 and 31 of every month.
Create two variables in the script, one containing today's day of the
month and another containing tomorrow's day of the month:

Code:
 TODAY=`date +%d`
 TOMORROW=`date +%d -d "1 day"`

 # See if tomorrow's day is less than today's
 if  [  $TOMORROW  -lt  $TODAY  ];  then
         echo  "This is the last day of the month"
 #       Do stuff...
 fi

Smilie

Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Code tags please, thanks.

Last edited by zaxxon; 10-20-2011 at 04:54 AM.. Reason: code tags
# 3  
Old 06-09-2005
to be ran at 11pm on the last day of a month:
Code:
00 23 * * *[ `date +%d` -eq `echo \`cal\` | awk '{print $NF}'` ] && myJob.sh

This User Gave Thanks to vgersh99 For This Post:
# 4  
Old 06-09-2005
You can try as,
Code:
00 23 * * * [[ $(date +'%d') -eq $(cal | awk '!/^$/{ print $NF }' | tail -1) ]] && job 1>/dev/null 2>&1

hth.

Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment Code tags please, thanks.

Last edited by zaxxon; 10-20-2011 at 04:55 AM.. Reason: code tags
This User Gave Thanks to muthukumar For This Post:
# 5  
Old 06-09-2005
Just a note - when using commands in cron always use the full path to commands...

/usr/bin/date
/usr/bin/cal

In this case however, the commands should work without the full path because cron sets up a very basic environment that usually includes /usr/bin in PATH, but I always err on the side of caution and provide absolute paths....

</pedant>

Cheers
ZB
# 6  
Old 08-26-2007
My simple solution...

Was to turn the date math trick shown above into a script that I named 'last-day-of-month.sh':
Code:
#!/bin/bash

TODAY=`/bin/date +%d`
TOMORROW=`/bin/date +%d -d "1 day"`

# See if tomorrow's day is less than today's
if [ $TOMORROW -lt $TODAY ]; then
        exit 0
fi

exit 1

Which can then be used within a crontab file as follows:
Code:
12 0 * * * last-day-of-month.sh && /run/my/cron/job.sh

I hope this is of some use to you...

-jason
This User Gave Thanks to jbuberel For This Post:
# 7  
Old 09-09-2008
I had a similar dilemma where I need to run a backup script every 2nd Tuesday of the Month. So I added the following to my script:

Code:
TODAY=`/bin/date +%d | cut -d"0" -f2`
TUE=`cal | awk {'print $3'} | xargs | /usr/bin/cut -d" "  -f3`
#See if today matches the 2nd Tuesday of the month
if [ "$TODAY" -ne "$TUE" ] ; then

        exit 0

else


Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment code tags please, thanks.

Last edited by zaxxon; 10-20-2011 at 04:55 AM.. Reason: code tags
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Dynamic crontab entry for day and night

I have query apply crontab entry that the script executes as below day hours (before 8:00 PM and after 7:00 AM) execute every 5 min in Night hours (after 8:00 PM to 7:00 AM) executes every 15 min How can we set such entry in crontab ? (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: kaushik02018
4 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Script to run on 2 4 and 7 day of the month

I am looking for a unix script which could run a job on 2, 4 and 7 working day of the month. if the days are falling on the saturday/sunday. it should run on the next day. Thank you.. (9 Replies)
Discussion started by: tradingspecial
9 Replies

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Simpler crontab entry to execute pgm on last day of the month

The following bash command line works for the last day of the month. Test by replacing the 1 with tomorrows day of month number && echo "Day before tomorrow"Can it be used within crontab? As * * 28-31 * * && echo "Today ls last day of month" >>/tmp/crontabtestI tried to test crontab with... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: lsatenstein
1 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Writing a script to run weekly/monthly - check for weekday or day-of-the-month

Hi all, I currently have a UNIX file maintenance script that runs daily as a cron job. Now I want to change the script and create functions/sub inside it that runs on a weekly or monthly basis. To run all the scripts' daily maintenance, I want to schedule it in cron as simply maint.sh... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: newbie_01
1 Replies

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Running Script via Crontab on 2nd Working day each month

Hello Guys, I have a questions regarding running a shell script every second working day each month. I have no clue how solve this problem :wall:. Important is that it has to be the second working (Mo-Fr). Example: If 1st and 2nd Days of month are Sat and Sun the script must run on 4th day... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: Hollo
5 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

run the script for last day of the month

Hello Experts, I have a script which i want to run the on last day of every month. let say I have backup.sh script which i want to run it every month last day. Can anyone please help :confused: thanks (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: aks_1902
4 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Crontab to skip only one entry in a day???

Hello Friends, I have a cron tab like this: 10,40 1-23 * * * /script i want to skip only one execution at 00:10, so basically i want it to execute every hour at 10th and 40th minute, except 00:10. Could anyone help me doing this Thanks folks :b: (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Prateek007
4 Replies

8. Solaris

crontab entry to run a script on 1st of every month.

What should be the crontab entry in solaris to run a script on 1st of every month? Is this correct? 00 02 1 * * <script to be executed> (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: deepaksahni0109
5 Replies

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

cron script -run every 2nd day of month except Monday

I know I can't schedule this in cron and would have to write a wrapper around my script and schedule it in cron ....but not sure how do to this? How do I exclude Monday if the 2nd day of the month falls on a Monday? Thanks. I tried this: 0 0 2 * 0,2-6 command And I know this doesnt... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: newtou
2 Replies

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Cron to run first day of month to calculate date 3 months ago

Hi, I would like to find out how can i calculate a date which is 3 months ago. I intend to run a cron job on the 1st of every month, and calculate the month 4 months earlier from the date. For example, if today's date is 1st May 2007, i would like to return 012007( January 2007). i can get... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: new2ss
1 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question