Writing a script to run weekly/monthly - check for weekday or day-of-the-month
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 when it runs all of its daily maintenance. To run its weekly maintenance functions/subs, I schedule it as maint.sh weekly=6 where 6 is saturday. To run its monthly task, I schedule it as maint.sh monthly=15, i.e. every 15th of the month. Not sure whether I can do monthly=eom where eom is to run functions/sub for every end of the month.
At the moment, am playing around with the weekly functions/sub and what I've done so far is to do something like below
Then I compare the day_of_week_n variable with the value of the command below:
And then I use if-then-else to compare if current day of the week matches, then it will run the weekly functions/sub. So weekly=6 will run saturday's functons/sub, weekly=1 will run monday's functions/sub and so on.
Am wanting to know if there is a better way of parsing for the day of the week besides what am doing at the moment which is using case and then doing if-then-else to check for the day of the week.
For the monthly functions/sub, I uses the value of the one below and uses if-then-else again to compare it when monthly=15.
Perhaps anyone can advice if there is any way I can check for end of month?
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if the days are falling on the saturday/sunday. it should run on the next day.
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