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Operating Systems AIX CRON Question Post 96085 by kduffin on Tuesday 17th of January 2006 11:59:57 AM
Old 01-17-2006
Not sure that is possible. It would be simpler to schedule the job for every saturday and have the script figure out whether it is the last saturday and whether to run or not. There are canned examples on the net such as:

for i in `cal | awk '{print $6}'`; do
if [ "x" != "x"$i ]; then
day=$i
fi
done

today=`date | awk '{print $3}'`

if [ $day = $today ]; then
'do want you want ...'
fi
exit


There are much more robust scheduling tools out there that can manage scheduled jobs from one point accross your enterprise.

It is also discussed in these forums here.

Cheers,

Keith
 

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NAME
DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN - English language metadata DESCRIPTION
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This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See <http://dev.perl.org/licenses/> perl v5.14.2 2012-05-31 DateTime::Format::Natural::Lang::EN(3pm)
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