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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Scheduling a command to run every 3 days through cron Post 302345052 by Arunprasad on Tuesday 18th of August 2009 09:49:30 AM
Old 08-18-2009
vidyadhar85,
I want to run every 3 days say like 1st, 4th, 7th, 10th, 13th ......

jim mcnamara,
I verified the man page for %s in date command and which is not available (for %S is avaiable). Is that `date +%s` throws the number of seconds from the begining of the calendar? or only for the current day. As you suggested i am going for the well proposed solution DOW with fixed values.

FYI, I am using Unix AIX 5 OS.

Thanks for your help!
 

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strclean(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      strclean(1M)

NAME
strclean - STREAMS error logger cleanup program SYNOPSIS
strclean [-a age] [-d logdir] DESCRIPTION
strclean is used to clean up the STREAMS error logger directory on a regular basis (for example, by using cron. By default, all files with names matching error.* in /var/adm/streams that have not been modified in the last three days are removed. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -a age The maximum age in days for a log file can be changed using the -a option. -d logdir A directory other than /var/adm/streams can be specified using the -d option. EXAMPLES
Example 1 A sample of using the strclean command. This example has the same result as running strclean with no arguments: example% strclean -d /var/adm/streams -a 3 FILES
/var/adm/streams/error.* ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
cron(1M), strerr(1M), attributes(5) NOTES
strclean is typically run from cron on a daily or weekly basis. SunOS 5.11 14 Sep 1992 strclean(1M)
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