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Old 05-06-2008
How to scedule a script to be run on every second saturday in Month?
Hello Friends,

In my project I have to schedule a script to be run on every second saturday (once in month). Can you please suggest what entry should I make in cron ?
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Old 05-06-2008
You may get some help here
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Old 05-06-2008
cron combines days with dates, using or logic rather than and.

The short answer is this: Have it run every Saturday, then have your script check if the date is 8-14.
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Old 05-08-2008
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Originally Posted by sourabhsharma
Hello Friends,

In my project I have to schedule a script to be run on every second saturday (once in month). Can you please suggest what entry should I make in cron ?
Hey,

It depends that on which date "Second Saturday" comes in a particular month.
Make a cron job entry with following parameters :
00 23 ? * 6

This is at 00 minutes of hour 23 on Saturday Every Month execute the script. But ? denotes "Which Day of the Month" : this varies and as I said earlier "It depends that on which date 'Second Saturday' comes in a particular month."
Either you program it OR Fix the day of the month as 14th day of the month.

Then cron entry will be :
00 23 14 * 6


Hope you got what I am trying to convey.
Thanks.
Varun Smilie
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Old 05-08-2008
00 23 8-14 * 6

Rgds
zx
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Old 05-09-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by zxmaus
00 23 8-14 * 6
OK. I'll repeat myself.

cron uses or logic regarding dates and days.

Therefore, the above suggestion will run the job at 11:00pm, every day from the 8th to the 14th, as well as every Saturday.
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