If you want alternate Mondays, you need to pass two tests:-
Is it a Monday?
Is this an odd week of the year? (Or you may prefer to use the even weeks of course)
The first test can be checked easily with the value from date +%u or date +%A
For the other, use date +%W and test if it's odd like this:-
This will give the remainder so you can tell odd or even easily, then:-
Schedule the job every day and these tests will handle your requirement. Of course, you have to consider how to run the script late if there has been an operational problem, perhaps with a FORCE flag.
You can therefore consolidate it all like this:-
I hope that this helps.
Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
I hope that this helps.
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