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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Can cron do this? Post 41658 by Perderabo on Friday 10th of October 2003 10:50:39 AM
Old 10-10-2003
There seem to be two issues: first everything after a per cent sign is getting truncated. You would think that I would have encountered a cron command before that used a %, but I guess that this must be my first. Also the backtick expressions are not being evaluated.

The syntax that works for me is:
* * * * * eval [ `date +\%e` -gt 8 -a `date +\%` -lt 11] && <command>

This is ugly enough that some cool script is needed. I'll write one this weekend.
 

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atq(1)							      General Commands Manual							    atq(1)

NAME

       atq - Prints the queue of jobs waiting to be run

SYNOPSIS

       atq [-c	| -n] [-q queuename] [user...]

       The atq command prints the queue of jobs waiting to be run at a later date.  These jobs were created with the at command.

OPTIONS

       Sorts  the  queue by the time that the at command was issued.  Prints only the number of files currently in the queue.  Specifies the queue
       you want to use.

DESCRIPTION

       With no options, the queue is sorted in the order that the jobs are to be executed.

       When a privileged user invokes the atq command without specifying a username, the entire queue is displayed; if a  username  is	specified,
       only those jobs belonging to the specified user are displayed.

EXAMPLES

       In order to look at the queue created by the at command, enter: atq

       If there are jobs in the queue, a message similar to the following is displayed: root.62169200.a 	 Tue Sep 12 11:00:00 1990

       The extension specifies an at job.

FILES

       Main cron directory.  List of allowed users.  List of denied users.  Spool area.  Queue description file for at, batch, and cron.

SEE ALSO

       Commands:  at(1), atrm(1), cron(8)

       Files:  queuedefs(4)

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