12-22-2008
Hi Alan,
yes you are right Alan ,If you want to get it done using crontab then use the following syntax. which ou have already mentioned.
there should not be any doubt that this will run on every saturday. because you have already specifed the date as 13th DEC so it wll run on this particular day only if it is saturday.
00 08 13 12 6 /usr/datatools/dtbackups/Test.sh > /usr/u/sybase_12.5/logs/Test.log &
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actdiag - generate activity-diagram image file from spec-text file.
SYNOPSIS
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DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the actdiag commands.
actdiag is a program that generate activity-diagram image file from spec-text file.
OPTIONS
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is
included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.
-h, --help
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SEE ALSO
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