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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Scheduling a command to run every 3 days through cron Post 302345284 by methyl on Tuesday 18th of August 2009 09:13:47 PM

08-18-2009

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One approach from a daily cron, using flag files.

Code:

# Is this day 3? (When we want to run myscript).
if [ -f myscript_day2 ]
then
       # Run myscript on day 3
       myscript
       # Remove flag file ready for next time
       rm myscript_day2
       exit
fi
# Is this day2 ?
if [ -f myscript_day1 ]
then
      rm myscript_day1
      touch myscript_day2
      exit
fi
# Create day 1 flag file
touch myscript_day1

Last edited by methyl; 08-18-2009 at 10:40 PM.. Reason: bad paste

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