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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell script to generate daily crontab entries between to specific dates Post 302375409 by rdcwayx on Friday 27th of November 2009 03:16:10 PM
Old 11-27-2009
For example, you need run the script between 11/26/2009 and 11/28/2009 at 9 o'clock.

Code:
0 9 * * * script.sh 11/26/2009 11/28/2009

You can adjust your cronjob with different dates.

You need add some if-then-fi in your script.sh (code is not tested)

Code:
if [ "$2" = "" ]; then
  echo " please provide dates: $0 Date1 Date2"
  exit
fi

D1=`gdate -d "$1" +%s`
D2=`gdate -d "$2" +%s`
NOW=`gdate +%s`

if [ "${D1}" > "${D2}"] ; then
  echo "Date1 must older than Date2"
  exit
fi

if [ "$NOW" > "${D1}" && "$NOW" < "${D2}" ]; then

  # Put your script here.

fi

 

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lr_cron

LR_CRON.IN(1)						  LogReport's Lire Documentation					     LR_CRON.IN(1)

NAME

       lr_cron - run the perodical jobs configured in a DlfStore.

SYNOPSIS

       lr_cron period store

DESCRIPTION

       lr_cron is designed to be called in a crontab(5) entry.	period should be "hourly", "daily", "weekly", "monthly" or "yearly".  store should
       be the full path name of the DLF Store.

       lire(1) should be used to configure periodical jobs in the store.

       To run jobs as scheduled by lire(1), you will need to setup cron jobs. For each schedule you use, you should configure a cron job to be
       executed according to that period.

       Here is a crontab(5) entry that will make sure that all possible schedules are supported in the /home/flacoste/myStore DLF store:

	05  *  *  *  * lr_run lr_cron hourly  /home/flacoste/myStore
	15 01  *  *  * lr_run lr_cron daily   /home/flacoste/myStore
	15 02  *  * 02 lr_run lr_cron weekly  /home/flacoste/myStore
	15 03 01  *  * lr_run lr_cron monthly /home/flacoste/myStore
	15 04 01  01 * lr_run lr_cron yearly  /home/flacoste/myStore

       .

SEE ALSO

       lire(1)

AUTHOR

       Francis J. Lacoste <flacoste@logreport.org>

VERSION

       $Id: lr_cron.in,v 1.37 2006/07/23 13:16:32 vanbaal Exp $

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2004 Stichting LogReport Foundation LogReport@LogReport.org

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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