Have cron run a script on days 28, 29, 30 and 31 of every month.
Create two variables in the script, one containing today's day of the
month and another containing tomorrow's day of the month:
Code:
TODAY=`date +%d`
TOMORROW=`date +%d -d "1 day"`
# See if tomorrow's day is less than today's
if [ $TOMORROW -lt $TODAY ]; then
echo "This is the last day of the month"
# Do stuff...
fi
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Hi,
I would like to find out how can i calculate a date which is 3 months ago. I intend to run a cron job on the 1st of every month, and calculate the month 4 months earlier from the date. For example, if today's date is 1st May 2007, i would like to return 012007( January 2007).
i can get... (1 Reply)
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)
Hello Friends,
I have a cron tab like this:
10,40 1-23 * * * /script
i want to skip only one execution at 00:10, so basically i want it to execute every hour at 10th and 40th minute, except 00:10.
Could anyone help me doing this
Thanks folks
:b: (4 Replies)
Hello Experts,
I have a script which i want to run the on last day of every month.
let say I have backup.sh script which i want to run it every month last day.
Can anyone please help :confused:
thanks (4 Replies)
Hello Guys,
I have a questions regarding running a shell script every second working day each month.
I have no clue how solve this problem :wall:.
Important is that it has to be the second working (Mo-Fr).
Example: If 1st and 2nd Days of month are Sat and Sun the script must run on 4th day... (5 Replies)
Hi all,
I currently have a UNIX file maintenance script that runs daily as a cron job.
Now I want to change the script and create functions/sub inside it that runs on a weekly or monthly basis.
To run all the scripts' daily maintenance, I want to schedule it in cron as simply maint.sh... (1 Reply)
The following bash command line works for the last day of the month. Test by replacing the 1 with tomorrows day of month number
&& echo "Day before tomorrow"Can it be used within crontab? As
* * 28-31 * * && echo "Today ls last day of month" >>/tmp/crontabtestI tried to test crontab with... (1 Reply)
I am looking for a unix script which could run a job on 2, 4 and 7 working day of the month.
if the days are falling on the saturday/sunday. it should run on the next day.
Thank you.. (9 Replies)
I have query apply crontab entry that the script executes as below
day hours (before 8:00 PM and after 7:00 AM) execute every 5 min
in Night hours (after 8:00 PM to 7:00 AM) executes every 15 min
How can we set such entry in crontab ? (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: kaushik02018
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
date
DATE(1) General Commands Manual DATE(1)NAME
date - print or set the date and time
SYNOPSIS
date [-qsu] [[MMDDYY]hhmm[ss]] [+format]
OPTIONS -q Read the date from stdin
-s Set the time (implicit for -q or a date string)
-u Print the date as GMT
-t Use this number of seconds instead of current time
EXAMPLES
date # Print the date and time
date 0221921610 # Set date to Feb 21, 1992 at 4:10 p.m.
DESCRIPTION
With the -q flag or a numeric argument, date sets the GMT time and date. MMDDYY refers to the month, day, and year; hhmmss refers to the
hour, minute and second. Each of the six fields must be exactly two digits, no more and no less. date always display the date and time,
with the default format for the system. The -u flag request GMT time instead of local time. A format may be specified with a + followed
by a printf-like string with the following options:
%% % character
%A Name of the day
%B Name of the month
%D mm/dd/yy
%H Decimal hour on 2 digits
%I Decimal hour modulo 12 on 2 digits
%M Decimal minute on 2 digits
%S Decimal seconds on 2 digits
%T HH:MM:SS
%U Decimal week number, Sunday being first day of week
%W Decimal week number, Monday being first day of week
%X Same as %T
%Y Decimal year on 4 digits
%Z Time Zone (if any)
%a Abbreviated name of the day
%b Abbreviated name of the month
%c Appropriate date & time (default format)
%d Decimal day of the month on 2 digits
%e Same as %d, but a space replaces leading 0
%h Same as %b
%j Decimal dey of the year on 3 digits
%m Decimal month on 2 digits
%n Newline character
%p AM or PM
%r 12-hour clock time with AM/PM
%s Number of seconds since the epoch
%t Tab character
%w Decimal day of the week (0=Sunday)
%x Same as %D
%y Decimal year on 2 digits
SEE ALSO time(2), ctime(3), readclock(8).
DATE(1)
06-09-2005
