1. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Is there a way to setup a cronjob that will only run on the first monday of the month? (3 Replies)

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I am trying to do achieving of files by months. find /test -name \*.* -mtime +30 will give me the result of all modified files after 30 days. But lets say i want to list all files that is modified in last months... what is the command to do it? Thanks! (13 Replies)

3. Shell Programming and Scripting

Help please! I need to read the calendar and put the date of the third Friday of each month into a variable for comparison in an "if" statement. How would I do this? Thnx, leslie02 (10 Replies)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I would like to find out the month from a given date, how is it possible. (5 Replies)

5. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I need to display the date of the first monday of a month. Can any one please help me on this. Thanks in advance. (6 Replies)

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I know I can't schedule this in cron and would have to write a wrapper around my script and schedule it in cron ....but not sure how do to this? How do I exclude Monday if the 2nd day of the month falls on a Monday? Thanks. I tried this: 0 0 2 * 0,2-6 command And I know this doesnt... (2 Replies)

7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi, Could any one please let me know the crontab entry for scheduling a job for every first monday of the month? Thank You in advance, Sue (2 Replies)

8. HP-UX

Hi All Any one please suggest me... I have one directory every monday one file will be created in that directory. so if the file is created on monday or not i need check first. How can write a script??? if the file is not created i want to quit from script. Thanks K.Srinivas (5 Replies)

9. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Hi All, I need to find last two files for the month. lets say there are following files in directory -rwxr-xr-x 1 user userg 1596 Mar 19 15:43 c.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 user userg 1596 Mar 21 15:43 d.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1 user userg 1596 Mar 22 15:43 f.txt -rwxr-xr-x 1... (14 Replies)

10. Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi, I want two dates one will be the current date and the other one will be just one month before. Say if current month is 11/4/2014 then the other date should be 11/3/2014. #!/bin/ksh currentDtae=`date` oneMonthBefore= ? I dont know how to do it. Went through some of the related threads... (15 Replies)