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06-05-2012

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Bi-Weekly script

Hi,

I found the following biweekly script by searching google:

###############################################
why not schedule it weekly, cache the "date" of the last run to a
file, and then at the beginning of your shell script
compare the current date with the cached date and only approach to the
real code when they are two-week difference.
This logic should be very easy to implement in both cronjob and the
shell script.

Code:

#/bin/sh
 
BASEDIR=/path/to/cron/bin
CACHEFILE=$BASEDIR/lastrun.txt
TODAY=$(date +%F)
DAY14=$(date -d'-14 days' +%F)
 
if ! [ -s "$CACHEFILE" ]; then
date +%F > "$CACHEFILE"
else
LASTRUN=$(<"$CACHEFILE")
if [ "$DAY14" != "$LASTRUN" ]; then
echo "not scheduled"
exit
fi
echo "$TODAY" > "$CACHEFILE"
fi
 echo "program here"

####################################################
This line gives error when i use -x debug option, can someone please help me to fix this?

Quote:

+ date '-d-14 days' +%F

usage: date [-jnu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ...
[-f fmt date | [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.ss]] [+format]

Thanks
Sincerely,
RM

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